[R] GDB under windows

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Duncan Murdoch wrote:

> On Thu, 6 Nov 2003 11:04:25 -0000 , "Marsland, John"
> <John.Marsland at CommerzbankIB.com> wrote :
> 
> >Does anybody have some simple instructions to get me going using the GNU
> >debugger GDB under windows with R? 
> >
> >The R Extensions manual mentions briefly debugging under unix, but I've seen
> >seen GDB mention in the Bloodshed Dev C++ IDE so it should be possible to
> >use it with R?
> 
> I've got a few tips beyond those in the FAQ, but haven't had a chance
> to write them down anywhere.  If anyone wants to volunteer to write
> this up, I think it would be worthwhile putting them in a web page for
> future reference.
> 
> One tip:  in recent versions of R (but hopefully not in 1.8.1), gdb
> always traps on a few memory allocation errors during startup.  This
> is irritating but harmless, continuing from that point on will
> eventually get R to start.

That is unlikely to be fixed in 1.8.1 but is already fixed in R-devel.  
The changes involved are quite far-reaching.

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