[Rd] Creating a long list triggers billions of messages

[Hugh Parsonage]

Apologies all. This must have been fixed in a recent version and the
cloud error was a resource limit not associated with the issue.

On Tue, 21 Jan 2025 at 23:06, Hugh Parsonage <hugh.parsonage using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I tried doing this on a cloud instance of R 4.4.2 but the terminal
> exited and the cloud ejected my session shortly after setting the
> breakpoint and running the program
>
> Function "Rf_errorcall" not defined.
> Make breakpoint pending on future shared library load? (y or [n]) y
> Breakpoint 2 (Rf_errorcall) pending.
> (gdb) run
> Starting program: /opt/R/4.4.2/lib/R/bin/exec/R -q -s -e
> x\~+\~\<-\~+\~vector\(\"list\",\~+\~2\^31\)
> [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
> Using host libthread_db library "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
> [New Thread 0x7ffff3a6a700 (LWP 454)]
> [New Thread 0x7ffff3269700 (LWP 455)]
> [New Thread 0x7fffeea68700 (LWP 456)]
> [New Thread 0x7fffec267700 (LWP 457)]
> [New Thread 0x7fffe9a66700 (LWP 458)]
> [New Thread 0x7fffe7265700 (LWP 459)]
> [New Thread 0x7fffe4a64700 (LWP 460)]
> [New Thread 0x7fffe2263700 (LWP 461)]
> [New Thread 0x7fffdfa62700 (LWP 462)]
> [New Thread 0x7fffdd261700 (LWP 463)]
> [New Thread 0x7fffdaa60700 (LWP 464)]
> [New Thread 0x7fffd825f700 (LWP 465)]
> [New Thread 0x7fffd5a5e700 (LWP 466)]
> [New Thread 0x7fffd525d700 (LWP 467)]
> [New Thread 0x7fffd2a5c700 (LWP 468)]
> [Detaching after vfork from child process 469]
> [Detaching after vfork from child process 471]
>
> Session info:
>
> R version 4.4.2 (2024-10-31)
> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
> Running under: Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS
>
> Matrix products: default
> BLAS:   /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openblas-pthread/libblas.so.3
> LAPACK: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openblas-pthread/liblapack.so.3;
> LAPACK version 3.9.0
>
> locale:
>  [1] LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C           LC_TIME=C.UTF-8
>    LC_COLLATE=C.UTF-8
>  [5] LC_MONETARY=C.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=C.UTF-8    LC_PAPER=C.UTF-8
>    LC_NAME=C
>  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C           LC_TELEPHONE=C
> LC_MEASUREMENT=C.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
> time zone: UTC
> tzcode source: system (glibc)
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] compiler_4.4.2 tools_4.4.2
>
> On Tue, 21 Jan 2025 at 22:56, Ivan Krylov <ikrylov using disroot.org> wrote:
> >
> > В Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:51:34 +1100
> > Hugh Parsonage <hugh.parsonage using gmail.com> пишет:
> >
> > > x <- vector("list", 2^31)
> > >
> > > which triggers (presumably) billions of error messages like
> > > Error: long vectors are not supported yet ../include/Rinlinedfuns.h
> >
> > I couldn't reproduce this with some released versions of R or a recent
> > R-devel. Would you mind sharing your sessionInfo()?
> >
> > If you'd like to, could you please run
> >
> > R -q -s -e 'x <- vector("list", 2^31)' -d gdb
> >
> > ...then set a breakpoint on Rf_errorcall, run the program and collect a
> > backtrace when it fires?
> >
> > --
> > Best regards,
> > Ivan