Note that this is happening in R_GetTraceback. Running under gdb told me
where (deparse2buff, but I guessed that) and on my system that the problem
was in sprintf.
Eh voila:
case EXTPTRSXP:
{
char tpb[12+sizeof(void *)];
d->sourceable = FALSE;
sprintf(tpb, "",
Yea I am aware of this. This is because the Ubuntu binary has stack smashing
detection enabled. It's possible to build R without this checking:
export CFLAGS="-fno-stack-protector"
I have not been able to figure out why stack smashing is detected. I'm
cc'ing this to r-devel in case anyone else h
