[R-SIG-Mac] SystemFlippers?

[Simon Urbanek]

On Apr 17, 2009, at 11:27 , Rob Goedman wrote:

> Hi,
>
> A long time ago I noticed below 'SystemFlippers' message started  to  
> show up, initially in R-2.8.0-alpha 64-bit.
>
> It only happens in 64-bit and if you start R.app through osascript/ 
> AppleScript, e.g. in TextMate using 'source file to R'.
>
> Has anyone else come across this behavior?
>

Yes (see the list archives), it seems a bug in Leopard when running 64- 
bit applications (it is not really R-related since many other  
applications seem to encounter it as well). AFAICS it is benign, just  
producing annoying messages.

Cheers,
Simon


>
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> [R.app GUI 1.28 (5324) x86_64-apple-darwin9.6.0]
>
> [Workspace restored from /Users/rob/Projects/.RData]
>
> SystemFlippers: didn't consume all data for long ID 0 (pBase =  
> 0x1153a0ab0, p = 0x1153a0ab4, pEnd = 0x1153a0ab8)
> SystemFlippers: didn't consume all data for long ID 0 (pBase =  
> 0x101ad34e0, p = 0x101ad34e4, pEnd = 0x101ad34e8)
> > source(file='/Users/rob/Projects/BHA/R/genPlots.R', print.eval=TRUE)
> SystemFlippers: didn't consume all data for long ID 0 (pBase =  
> 0x1153eadf0, p = 0x1153eadf4, pEnd = 0x1153eadf8)
> SystemFlippers: didn't consume all data for long ID 0 (pBase =  
> 0x1153ca220, p = 0x1153ca224, pEnd = 0x1153ca228)
> SystemFlippers: didn't consume all data for long ID 0 (pBase =  
> 0x118406880, p = 0x118406884, pEnd = 0x118406888)
> SystemFlippers: didn't consume all data for long ID 0 (pBase =  
> 0x118401800, p = 0x118401804, pEnd = 0x118401808)
>
>   wob incl tp fBit  fNBS firstTouch               results
> 1    0   10  0  769 -1318          5  Case_1_wob_0_incl_10
> 2    0   20  0 1691 -2811          5  Case_1_wob_0_incl_20
> 3    0   30  0 2523 -4166          5  Case_1_wob_0_incl_30
> 4    0   40  0 2763 -4698          5  Case_1_wob_0_incl_40
> 5    0   50  0 2844 -4986          5  Case_1_wob_0_incl_50
> 6    0   60  0 2906 -5215          5  Case_1_wob_0_incl_60
> 7    0   70  0 2960 -5400          5  Case_1_wob_0_incl_70
>
>
>
> On Sep 30, 2008, at 8:39 AM, Rob Goedman wrote:
>
>> Simon,
>>
>> On Sep 30, 2008, at 7:46 AM, Simon Urbanek wrote:
>>
>>>> Have been testing a bit with the 2-8-alpha (64 bit versions) and  
>>>> noticed below messages. I've seen some emails on other forums on  
>>>> this.
>>>> Never seen them in the 32-bit versions, including 2.8.0 .
>>
>>> Seems an OS X bug, at least according to those other forums... I'm  
>>> not sure we can do anything about it ... (except for muting  
>>> stderr ;)).
>>
>> Ok, I was just wondering if say textmate/osascript sends some weird  
>> characters as I only see the flippers when starting R.app  
>> implicitly through the 'source(file)' equivalent (via AppleScript).
>>
>>>> Could it be that Rversion.h is missing from the repository? The  
>>>> GUI do continue to show R 2.7.2 GUI 1.25 (5235) while I'm  
>>>> definitely running 2.8.0 .
>>>> And so do crash reports.
>>>
>>> Yes, I'm manually putting in the version number for release builds  
>>> (the GUI doesn't really know which R version it's run off) and I  
>>> didn't revert it back to devel afterwards. Should be fixed now.
>>
>> Yip, R version number is now gone. Maybe you're earlier approach is  
>> better for official releases although, as you state, it is  
>> ostrich's way of course ...
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Rob
>>
>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Rob
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> R version 2.8.0 alpha (2008-09-26 r46573)
>>>> Copyright (C) 2008 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
>>>> ISBN 3-900051-07-0
>>>>
>>>> R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
>>>> You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
>>>> Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.
>>>>
>>>> Natural language support but running in an English locale
>>>>
>>>> R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
>>>> Type 'contributors()' for more information and
>>>> 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.
>>>>
>>>> Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
>>>> 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
>>>> Type 'q()' to quit R.
>>>>
>>>> [Workspace restored from /Users/rob/Projects/.RData]
>>>>
>>>> > source(file='/Users/rob/Projects/BHA/CasingDrilling/tp.R',  
>>>> print.eval=TRUE)
>>>> Loading required package: CasingDrillAssembly
>>>> Loading required package: lattice
>>>> SystemFlippers: didn't consume all data for long ID 0 (pBase =  
>>>> 0x1016819a0, p = 0x1016819a4, pEnd = 0x1016819a8)
>>>> SystemFlippers: didn't consume all data for long ID 0 (pBase =  
>>>> 0x1016cf470, p = 0x1016cf474, pEnd = 0x1016cf478)
>>>> Loading required package: MASS
>>>> Loading required package: gtools
>>>> /Users/rob/Projects/BHA
>>>>  0,     5,      0.00,      3.28,      -47.92,      -26.55,       
>>>> 1,   3311
>>>>  0,     5,      1.00,     35.44,      -14.65,     -108.30,       
>>>> 2,   3717
>>>>  0,     5,     -0.32,      3.28,     -136.17,       60.45,       
>>>> 3,   3172
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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