[Rd] Buglet in src/appl/splines.c (PR#8030)

Mon Jul 25 09:41:05 CEST 2005

>>>>> "BeT" == Berwin A Turlach <berwin at maths.uwa.edu.au>
>>>>>     on Sun, 24 Jul 2005 16:24:51 +0200 (CEST) writes:

    BeT> I was looking at "splinefun" and the underlying C code
    BeT> and believe that there is a memory access error in the
    BeT> C routine "spline_eval".

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Excellent, Berwin!

Specifically the part about why the bug never really triggers
wrong behavior.
Your mail should be saved in  "The Annals of R"  ...

I'm fixing according to your proposal -- for "R-devel" or
(SVN) R/trunk/ only.

Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich