memory.profile() messes up the vector heap on Alpha/Linux?

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Peter Dalgaard BSA <p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk> writes:

> Naoki Takebayashi <ntakebay@bio.indiana.edu> writes:
> 
> > Hello,
> > I have been trying to debug a problem with R-0.90.0 (this bug was in
> > 0.65.1, too). The following code results in seg faults.  It doesn't
> > seg-fault on Linux/intel.
> > 
> > > memory.profile()
> > > gc()
...
> The gdb command would be 'watch *0x20001840ef8' (it's important to use
> the address as a number so that one gets a hardware watchpoint), but

Doh! Never mind gdb, sometimes you just need to look at the code:

    PROTECT(ans = allocVector(INTSXP, 21));
    PROTECT(nms = allocVector(STRSXP, 21));
    for (i = 0; i < 21; i++) {
        STRING(ans)[i] = 0;
        STRING(nms)[i] = R_BlankString;
    }

Try making that INTEGER(ans)[i] = 0 ...

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