Hi, A recent discussion on the list about tryCatch and signals made me think about memory allocation and signals in C extension modules. What happens to the memory allocated by R_alloc and Calloc if the user pressed Ctr-C during the call? R-ext doesn't seem to discuss this. I'd guess that R_alloc is interrupt-safe while Calloc is not, but I am not sure. In any case a paragraph in R-ext on signals would be helpful. While looking around for interrupts handling in the code I came across BEGIN_SUSPEND_INTERRUPTS macro in Defn.h file. Unfortunately, it is not available via R.h or Rinternals.h. Am I missing something? If not, could future releases of R make it available via, say, Rinternals.h? Thanks, Vadim
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