[Rd] Request for help with UBSAN and total absense of CRAN response

[Jan van der Laan]

... and they didn't make it through. I put the files in a gist:

https://gist.github.com/djvanderlaan/1e9beb75d2d595824efc

Jan



On 16-01-15 15:21, Jan van der Laan wrote:
> Dirk,
>
> The vagrant setup I use to test my packages with UBSAN also seems to
> replicate the error reported by CRAN (together with some other
> warnings). I have attached the files (I hope they get through the
> filters). I suppose you know what to do with them.
>
> Jan
>
>
>
>
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> Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> schreef:
>
>> CRAN has a package of mine in upload limbo because it failed UBSAN.
>>
>> I am not entirely ignorant on the topic of sanitizers and SAN / ASAN /
>> UBSAN;
>> we created not one but two Docker containers with ASAN and USBAN:
>>
>>    https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/rocker/r-devel-san/
>>    https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/rocker/r-devel-ubsan-clang/
>>
>> as well as predecessors to them in earlier Docker repos.
>>
>> Yet I fail to recreate the errors reported by CRAN:
>>
>>
>> http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/bdr/memtests/UBSAN-clang-trunk/RcppAnnoy/tests/runUnitTests.Rout
>>
>>
>> http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/bdr/memtests/UBSAN/RcppAnnoy/tests/runUnitTests.Rout
>>
>>
>> I asked politely (and twice) for help with the corresponding compiler
>> configuration(s).  But CRAN is of course way above communicating with
>> mere
>> mortals such as yours truly.
>>
>> So I have no recourse other than to spam all of you: if anybody here
>> has a
>> working UBSAN setup which can replicate the issue seen in the (rather
>> small)
>> RcppAnnoy package?
>>
>> Erik (upstream for Annoy, CC'ed) and I would be most grateful.  We do not
>> like being held hostage on an error report we cannot replicate and for
>> which
>> we do not receive any help (or even further communication) whatsoever.
>>
>> Dirk
>> about to turn into yet another frustrated CRAN user
>>
>> --
>> http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org
>>
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