[R] bus error macosx/off-topic

[Prof Brian Ripley]

These normally occur (at that point) from having written off one end of an
array. (If you are using .C/.Fortran, they try to copy back the
arguments.) Compiling with bounds checking turned on can help, at least
with Fortran.

On Wed, 12 May 2004, Ingmar Visser wrote:

> I'm building a package using C/C++ and Fortran code which usually runs fine.
> However I do get occasional bus errors around the time of exiting one of the
> C functions. 
> 
> Where do I need to be looking to solve this problem?
> Do bus errors stem from unmapped memory exceptions? How can I find out if
> that is what is happening while running R?


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