Dear list-members,
I have observed quite a strange problem with the date package.
You will find below what I get on my machine (Ubuntu). I have been able to
reproduce the error on Red Hat too. But it seems not to happen on Windows
(and on some other Linux distros?).
> require(date)
Loading required package: date
> sessionInfo()
R version 2.15.2 (2012-10-26)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
locale:
[1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C
[3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
[5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
[7] LC_PAPER=C LC_NAME=C
[9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
other attached packages:
[1] date_1.2-32
> as.date("1921994")
*** buffer overflow detected ***: /usr/lib/R/bin/exec/R terminated
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x37)[0x7f46659ca007]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x107f00)[0x7f46659c8f00]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x107369)[0x7f46659c8369]
I have tried to isolate the problem by calling the C code from the date
package without R.
#include "char_date.c"
int main()
{ int nv = 1;
int order[] = {2,3,1};
char cdatev[] = "1921994";
int month[] = {0};
int day[] = {0};
int year[] = {0};
int *n = &nv;
int i;
int size = strlen(cdatev);
char *cdate[size];
for (i=0;i<size;i++) cdate[i] = &cdatev[i];
char_date(n, order, cdate, month, day, year);
printf("%d-%d-%d\n",day[0],month[0],year[0]);
return(0);
}
Depending on the compilation flags, I get different behavior:
$ gcc rundate.c -o rundate.o
$ ./rundate.o
92-1-1994
$ gcc rundate.c -O3 -o rundate.o
$ ./rundate.o
*** buffer overflow detected ***: ./rundate.o terminated
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x37)[0x7f17fdfb9007]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x107f00)[0x7f17fdfb7f00]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x107369)[0x7f17fdfb7369]
$ gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=gcc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.6/lto-wrapper
Target: x86_64-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Ubuntu/Linaro
4.6.3-1ubuntu5' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.6/README.Bugs
--enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr
--program-suffix=-4.6 --enable-shared --enable-linker-build-id
--with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext
--enable-threads=posix --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.6
--libdir=/usr/lib --enable-nls --with-sysroot=/ --enable-clocale=gnu
--enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes
--enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-plugin --enable-objc-gc
--disable-werror --with-arch-32=i686 --with-tune=generic
--enable-checking=release --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-linux-gnu
--target=x86_64-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.6.3 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5)
Does anyone is able to reproduce this error ? Any thoughts what could be
wrong ?
Thanks in advance.
Erik
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