On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 14:14 -0800, Bill Dunlap wrote: > On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 21:15 +0100, Peter Dalgaard wrote: > > > > > > x <- quote(match.call()) > > > > > > eval(x) > > > > > *** buffer overflow detected ***: /usr/lib/R/bin/exec/R terminated > > > > > /lib/libc.so.6(__chk_fail+0x41)[0x1f1161] > > > > > /lib/libc.so.6[0x1f0617] > > > > > > > does look like something that just Should Not Happen... > > > I think valgrind shows the problem is in deparse.c: > 245 strncpy(data, CHAR(STRING_ELT(svec, 0)), 10); > 246 if (strlen(CHAR(STRING_ELT(svec, 0))) > 10) strcat(data, > "..."); > You need to put a '\0' into data[10] after that strncpy > so strcat can find the end of the string when the length > of the copied string is >=10. It currently runs into > uninitialized memory at the end of ".Primitive". > > (This is in a copy of R source from June 2006.)
The code is the same, but a couple of lines off in my copy from R 2.4.0 patched. Now lines 247 and 248. Thanks Bill. This would help to explain the difference in behaviors observed. Regards, Marc ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel