[Rd] [External] Re: Operations with long altrep vectors cause segfaults on Windows
Tomas Kalibera
tom@@@k@||ber@ @end|ng |rom gm@||@com
Wed Sep 9 10:53:18 CEST 2020
Thanks. Should be now fixed in 79169.
Tomas
On 9/9/20 10:32 AM, Hugh Parsonage wrote:
> R Under development (unstable) (2020-09-08 r79165)
>
> On Wed, 9 Sep 2020 at 18:00, Tomas Kalibera <tomas.kalibera using gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 9/9/20 9:30 AM, Hugh Parsonage wrote:
>>> Thank you!
>>>
>>> I get
>>>
>>> Starting program: C:\R\R-devel-20200909\bin\x64\Rgui.exe
>>> [New Thread 19940.0x638c]
>>> [New Thread 19940.0x102c]
>>> [New Thread 19940.0x329c]
>>> [New Thread 19940.0x37dc]
>>> warning: Invalid parameter passed to C runtime function.
>>>
>>> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
>>> 0x000000006c72d206 in compact_intseq_Dataptr (x=0x12783350,
>>> writeable=<optimized out>) at altclasses.c:169
>>> 169 altclasses.c: No such file or directory.
>> Thanks, would you know which svn version this is?
>>
>> Tomas
>>
>>> On Wed, 9 Sep 2020 at 17:03, Tomas Kalibera <tomas.kalibera using gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On 9/9/20 8:48 AM, Hugh Parsonage wrote:
>>>>> I am unable to set break or use gdb with any success when I use that version.
>>>>>
>>>>> On linux I would do R -d gdb but this gives "unknown option '-d' "
>>>>> while gdb R.exe (in the same directory as the debug version) gives the
>>>>> same output as before.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm happy to help but I appreciate this list might not be the best
>>>>> place to get a tutorial on using gdb on Windows.
>>>> Essentially, the steps are: build with DEBUG=T (to have debug symbols),
>>>> possibly updating EOPTS in MkRules.local to disable optimizations, then
>>>> run gdb loading RGui, "set solib-search-path", run RGui from gdb. Then
>>>> you can break to debugger from RGui menu, or just run the code that
>>>> segfaults, and you get to gdb and can print the stacktrace, etc. You can
>>>> find some information in rw-FAQ (R for Windows FAQ), but yes, it is
>>>> harder than on Linux. We can take care of this report, but of course in
>>>> the longer term it would help if more people could take their time to
>>>> setup debugging and analyze bugs even on Windows.
>>>>
>>>> Tomas
>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, 9 Sep 2020 at 07:47, Jeroen Ooms <jeroenooms using gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 11:44 PM Jeroen Ooms <jeroenooms using gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 5:20 PM Tomas Kalibera <tomas.kalibera using gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 9/8/20 4:48 PM, Hugh Parsonage wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Unfortunately I only get
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> [Thread 21752.0x4aa8 exited with code 3221225477]
>>>>>>>>> [Thread 21752.0x4514 exited with code 3221225477]
>>>>>>>>> [Thread 21752.0x3f10 exited with code 3221225477]
>>>>>>>>> [Inferior 1 (process 21752) exited with code 030000000005]
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> (I'm guessing I would need to build an instrumented version of R, or
>>>>>>>>> can R be debugged using gdb with an off-the-shelf installation?)
>>>>>>>> No, the default build lacks debug symbols. You need a build with debug
>>>>>>>> symbols, and if you can reproduce in a build without compiler
>>>>>>>> optimizations (-O0), the backtrace may be easier to interpret. Some bugs
>>>>>>>> however "disappear" when optimizations are disabled. You can build R
>>>>>>>> from source (and there may be debug builds provided by someone else
>>>>>>>> (Jeroen?)).
>>>>>>> Debug builds for each revision are available from
>>>>>>> https://r-devel.github.io . To download the installer you need to
>>>>>>> click the github icon in the last column in the table. You need to be
>>>>>>> signed in with a (free) Github account in order to download builds
>>>>>>> (artifacts) from Github actions. It will show download links for both
>>>>>>> the regular installer and installer with debug symbols.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In other news, the https://r-devel.github.io table also shows that the
>>>>>>> fix that martin committed is segfaulting on 32-bit.
>>>>>> Sorry that was inaccurate, it is not segfaulting at all, but the unit
>>>>>> test is raising an error on 32-bit.
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