[Rd] Opening and closing quartz graphic device crashes R

[Hadley Wickham]

> replicate(1000, {dev.new(); dev.off()})
R(83204,0xacdc1a28) malloc: *** mmap(size=16777216) failed (error code=12)
*** error: can't allocate region
*** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
R(83204,0xacdc1a28) malloc: *** mmap(size=16777216) failed (error code=12)
*** error: can't allocate region
*** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
...
 *** caught bus error ***
address 0x0, cause 'non-existent physical address'

> sessionInfo()
R version 2.15.2 (2012-10-26)
Platform: i386-apple-darwin9.8.0/i386 (32-bit)

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base


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