Peter Dalgaard wrote: > Marc Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 21:15 +0100, Peter Dalgaard wrote: >> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >>> >>> >>>> Full_Name: Justin Harrington >>>> Version: 2.4.0 >>>> OS: Fedora Core 6 >>>> Submission from: (NULL) (142.103.121.203) >>>> >>>> >>>> When I type the (albeit stupid) command >>>> >>>> eval(match.call()) >>>> >>>> R crashes with the following messages (truncated): >>>> >>>> *** buffer overflow detected ***: /usr/lib/R/bin/exec/R terminated >>>> >>> Yes, don't do that then ;-) >>> >> Indeed... ;-) >> >> >>> Part of the puzzle is that >>> >>> >>>> match.call() >>>> >>> match.call() >>> >>> which looks like something with potential for infinite recursion, but >>> that doesn't seem to be issue since >>> >>> >>>> f <- function(call = sys.call(sys.parent()))call >>>> f() >>>> >>> f() >>> >>>> eval(f()) >>>> >>> f() >>> >>> does not exhibit the same crash. And indeed >>> >>> >>>> x <- quote(match.call()) >>>> eval(x) >>>> >>> *** buffer overflow detected ***: /usr/lib/R/bin/exec/R terminated >>> ======= Backtrace: ========= >>> /lib/libc.so.6(__chk_fail+0x41)[0x1f1161] >>> /lib/libc.so.6[0x1f0617] >>> >>> does look like something that just Should Not Happen... >>> >> Peter, are you on FC6? >> >> On FC5, I cannot replicate your crash: >> >> >>> x <- quote(match.call()) >>> eval(x) >>> >> Error in match.call(definition, call, expand.dots) : >> '.Primitive...' is not a function >> >> ? >> > > Yes, I'm on FC6 since yum had updated the 1229 packages this morning. > > I see the crash with the FC6 RPM but not with a self-compiled R-patched. > > For what it's worth, I also get the same error when trying it on my (freshly updated) FC4 machine (Linux md.stat.ubc.ca 2.6.17-1.2142_FC4 #1 Tue Jul 11 22:41:14 EDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux) with R version 2.4.0 (2006-10-03)
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