Bill Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >=20 > > > > On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 21:15 +0100, Peter Dalgaard wrote: > > > > > > x <- quote(match.call()) > > > > > > eval(x) > > > > > *** buffer overflow detected ***: /usr/lib/R/bin/exec/R terminated > > > > > /lib/libc.so.6(__chk_fail+0x41)[0x1f1161] > > > > > /lib/libc.so.6[0x1f0617] > > > > > > > does look like something that just Should Not Happen... >=20 >=20 > I think valgrind shows the problem is in deparse.c: > 245 strncpy(data, CHAR(STRING_ELT(svec, 0)), 10); > 246 if (strlen(CHAR(STRING_ELT(svec, 0))) > 10) strcat(data, = "..."); > You need to put a '\0' into data[10] after that strncpy > so strcat can find the end of the string when the length > of the copied string is >=3D10. It currently runs into > uninitialized memory at the end of ".Primitive". >=20 > (This is in a copy of R source from June 2006.)
Now fixed in 2.4.0 Patched and the development version. --=20 O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard =C3=98ster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
