On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Peter Dalgaard wrote: > Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> Thanks Prof. Ripley and Ei-Ji. I should have mentioned that all the >>> versions I reported for were self-compiled, and I did so with the same >>> set of flags as the FC5 rpm. Will add that to the list in my head of >>> things to report. >> >> (I think this is probably FC5's flags being over-zealous, but Ei-ji >> Nakama may know better.) > > Probably not all that over-zealous. If you're smashing the stack you're > smashing the stack. It's not always fatal, but worth fixing.
But there is no evidence we are smashing the stack, and valgrind found no buffer overrun. As far as I can tell (killing a process with no core dump makes it hard to trace) this occurs when we copy 4 bytes from a buffer of 16 bytes to one of 5 bytes. > I actually have the same set of standard FC5 flags in config.site. > Without them, we risk Fedora Extra to come out with issues that we > missed, since they use those flags as a matter of policy. Apparently FC6 will have different flags/ different default behaviour, at least for ld. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel