On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On Thu, 6 Nov 2003 11:04:25 -0000 , "Marsland, John" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -- 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 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
