> On 15 Aug 2018, at 12:48, Duncan Murdoch <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 15/08/2018 7:08 AM, Benjamin Tyner wrote:
>> Hi
>> In my R package, imagine I have a C function defined:
>> void myfunc(int *x) {
>> // some code
>> }
>> but when I call it, I pass it a pointer to a longint instead of a
>> pointer to an int. Could this practice potentially result in a segfault?
>
> I don't think the passing would cause a segfault, but "some code" might be
> expecting a positive number, and due to the type error you could pass in a
> positive longint and have it interpreted as a negative int.
Are you thinking only of a little-endian system? A 32-bit lookup of a pointer
to a 64-bit area could read the wrong half and get a completely different value.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
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