On 24/05/2013 07:53, Jan van der Laan wrote:
I am trying to use R_RegisterCFinalizerEx to ensure some c++ object is
properly deleted after use. However, I run into some problems when
trying to pass in the third argument which is an Rboolean. The line
'R_RegisterCFinalizerEx(p, finalizer, TRUE);' generates the following
error when trying to compile using R CMD SHLIB:
g++ -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -fpic -O2 -pipe -g -c
rboolean.cpp -o rboolean.o
rboolean.cpp: In function ?SEXPREC* create(SEXP)?:
rboolean.cpp:21:46: error: invalid conversion from ?int? to ?Rboolean?
[-fpermissive]
In file included from /usr/share/R/include/Rdefines.h:29:0,
from rboolean.cpp:4:
/usr/share/R/include/Rinternals.h:764:6: error: initializing argument
3 of ?void R_RegisterCFinalizerEx(SEXP, R_CFinalizer_t, Rboolean)?
[-fpermissive]
make: *** [rboolean.o] Error 1
I have managed to reduce the problem to the example below:
===== foo.cpp =====
#include <R.h>
#include <Rdefines.h>
void foo() {
Rboolean b = TRUE;
}
==================
With the extension .cpp this generates the error above, with the
extension .c (don't put both in the same directory; at least not with
the same name) it compiles without errors or warnings.
When looking at the headers (R_ext/Boolean.h and Rdefines.h) it seems
that TRUE and FALSE are also defined as constants which seems to
conflict with the enum values of Rboolean.
For now I use the compiler flag -fpermissive (as suggested by g++), but
I suppose this is not acceptable when submitting to CRAN. Am I doing
something wrong? Is there a workaround/solution?
Don't use Rdefines.h: use Rinternals.h.
Rdefines.h was for compatibility with S code from the 1990s: it is not
kept up to date.
Thanks.
Jan
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