[R] Is this a bug?

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Yves Gauvreau wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I noticed a particular behavior in the following situation on:
> 
> platform Windows
> arch     x86
> os       Win32
> system   x86, Win32
> status
> major    1
> minor    1.0
> year     2000
> month    June
> day      15
> language R
> 
> 
> I've created  a DLL from a Fortran source and a R function to call it. Every
> thing went fine. Then I
> noticed while testing the function that I had forgotten something, so I
> unloaded the DLL, made the modifications to the Fortran source, recompiled,
> reload and retest. This caused R to crash, so I restarted R (GUI) and made
> another attempt to test the function and it work fine. It looks like
> something is wrong maybe with dyn.unload or whatever. I tried something
> similar with C source and the same thing appends. Is it R or Windows NT the
> culprit?

There are a couple of bugs in the symbol caching logic in dyn.unload,
especially when PACKAGE= is not used (when cached symbols from the DLL are
never forgotten). If you undef CACHE_DLL_SYMS in dynload.c and rebuild R
the problem should go away.

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