[Rd] Segfault: .Call and classes with logical slots

[John Chambers]

I think you need to PROTECT the vector you're putting in the slot as
well as the overall object.  At any rate, the problem goes away for me
with the revised version of dummy.c below.  (Empirically, PROTECT'ing
the class definition didn't seem to be needed, but experience suggests
that too much protection  is better than too little.)

#include <Rdefines.h>

SEXP foo() {

    SEXP ans, cl, el;

    PROTECT(cl = MAKE_CLASS("test"));
    PROTECT(ans = NEW_OBJECT(cl));
    PROTECT(el = allocVector(LGLSXP, 1));
    SET_SLOT(ans, install("lgl"), el);
    LOGICAL(GET_SLOT(ans, install("lgl")))[0] = TRUE;
    UNPROTECT(3);
    return(ans);
}


Torsten Hothorn wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> the following example aiming at a class containing a logical slot
> segfaults under R-1.9.0 when `gctorture(on = TRUE)' is used:
> 
> Code code (dummy.c):
> 
> #include <Rdefines.h>
> 
> SEXP foo() {
> 
>     SEXP ans;
> 
>     PROTECT(ans = NEW_OBJECT(MAKE_CLASS("test")));
>     SET_SLOT(ans, install("lgl"), allocVector(LGLSXP, 1));
>     LOGICAL(GET_SLOT(ans, install("lgl")))[0] = TRUE;
>     UNPROTECT(1);
>     return(ans);
> }
> 
> R code (dummy.R):
> 
> dyn.load("dummy.so")
> 
> setClass("test", representation = representation(lgl = "logical"))
> 
> a = .Call("foo")
> a # OK
> 
> gctorture(on = TRUE)
> a = .Call("foo")
> gctorture(on = FALSE)
> a # segfault
> 
> which gives
> 
> R>
> R>
> R> dyn.load("dummy.so")
> R>
> R> setClass("test", representation = representation(lgl = "logical"))
> [1] "test"
> R>
> R> a = .Call("foo")
> R> a
> An object of class "test"
> Slot "lgl":
> [1] TRUE
> 
> R>
> R> gctorture(on = TRUE)
> R> a = .Call("foo")
> R> gctorture(on = FALSE)
> Segmentation fault
> 
> Best,
> 
> Torsten
> 
> R> version
>          _
> platform i686-pc-linux-gnu
> arch     i686
> os       linux-gnu
> system   i686, linux-gnu
> status
> major    1
> minor    9.0
> year     2004
> month    04
> day      12
> language R
> R>
> 
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