[Rd] Segmentation fault when options(max.print = .Machine$integer.max)

[Martin Morgan]

On 09/25/2012 05:26 AM, Martin Maechler wrote:
>
>> Seemed like a good idea at the time,
>
> I'm curious.  Why is it (setting max.print much too large)
> a good idea?

I usually set it considerably smaller (50) than default to conserve 
screen real estate, but then occasionally need to see more than my small 
setting (e.g., ls(getNamespace("Matrix"))) and don't want to guess at 
how much I want to see.

Thanks for your fix.

Martin

>
>> but
>>   >   options(max.print = .Machine$integer.max)
>>   >   1:10
>>            [1]
>> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
>
>> because of an integer overflow at src/main/printvector.c:176
>
>>   > sessionInfo()
>> R Under development (unstable) (2012-09-24 r60800)
>> Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>> ...
>
>> also R-patched, etc.
>
> Thank you, Martin.   I'm about to commit fixes for this.
> "another" Martin.
>
>
>> Martin
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