[Rd] calloc() vs. R_Calloc()

[Adrian Dușa]

Dear Rui,

Thank you so much for the response, that's a very good observation but I've
just tested and results in the same errors, unfortunately.

I have now changed all malloc()s to R_Calloc(), in the latest commit:
https://github.com/dusadrian/QCAtest/blob/main/src/CCubes.c

And yet:
https://builder.r-hub.io/status/QCA_3.16.tar.gz-e652c850de7e51c4cc1311fafe44f986

There must be something obvious I am missing, but my C knowledge is limited
and already stretched out...

Best wishes,
Adrian

On Thu, 7 Apr 2022 at 18:49, Rui Barradas <ruipbarradas using sapo.pt> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Tomas is right, there are many memory operations allocating with malloc
> and freeing with R_Free:
>
> line: variables - operation
>
>   55: p_pichart - malloc
> 336: p_pichart - R_Free
>
> 236: copy_implicants - malloc
> 260: copy_implicants - R_Free
>
> 240: p_tempic - malloc
> 262: p_tempic - R_Free
>
>
> And there are more cases like these. For what I've seen, the frequent
> (unique?) case is malloc/R_Free.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Rui Barradas
>
> Às 09:59 de 07/04/2022, Tomas Kalibera escreveu:
> >
> > On 4/7/22 10:32, Adrian Dușa wrote:
> >> On Thu, 7 Apr 2022 at 10:32, Tomas Kalibera <tomas.kalibera using gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>      [...]
> >>
> >>      And what are the errors you run into? On which platforms, under
> what
> >>      circumstances, etc? It would be much easier to give advice knowing
> >>      that.
> >>
> >>      In principle, one issue you may run into when switching allocators
> is
> >>      that you accidentally end up freeing by a different allocator from
> >>      the
> >>      one used to allocate it. It is common on Windows but can in
> principle
> >>      happen elsewhere as well.
> >>
> >>      Also by a slightly different heap layout or different allocator
> >>      implementation you may wake up bugs in the program not seen
> >>      previously
> >>      (use after free, invalid memory accesses, etc)
> >>
> >>
> >> That is something I do not know yet, since the only information the
> >> server gives is this:
> >>
> https://builder.r-hub.io/status/original/QCA_3.16.tar.gz-a03b4462b41df37c6284be1d5519e8b3
> >>
> >> I'll probably end up debugging the C code, but since the only
> >> difference is using Free() vs free() on exactly the same objects, I
> >> suspected a mis-usage of the R commands.
> >>
> >> The same setup passes with no problems on my local MacOS, but the
> >> errors still seem to occur on the Windows setup from r-hub.
> >
> > This is very likely because you are freeing memory allocated by calloc()
> > (or something else but not R_Calloc() in your program) using R_Free() or
> > memory allocated using R_Calloc() by using free() in your program.
> > I would recommend checking the source code manually for that.
> >
> > It is not surprising that the problem doesn't appear on other platforms
> > where the allocators happen to be the same.
> >
> > Best
> > Tomas
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Best wishes,
> >> Adrian
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