On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 2:24 PM, Robert McGehee <[email protected]> wrote:
> Winston, > I had a similar experience to you tracking down an insanely difficult bug > in my R code that "disappeared" whenever slight changes were made to the > script (e.g. like adding cat() statements). In my case, it coincided with > my over-eager compilation of R and its library stack, as I was also > experimenting with a cutting edge version of the gcc compiler as well as > what I thought were innocuous performance enhancing CFLAGS like -O3/-Ofast > -march=native. After downgrading gcc and recompiling everything (R and > BLAS) without the extra flags, the problem went away. Not saying this is > your problem, just sharing my similar experience. > > Thanks Robert. I'm glad that I'm not the only one who's encountered an issue like this. "Insanely difficult" is an apt description. :) I've been using the rocker/r-devel for testing. It compiles R with the following CFLAGS: -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/r-base-3.3.3=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g It looks like it gets those settings from running R CMD config CFLAGS with the already-installed version of R (3.3.3) which comes from a .deb package. https://github.com/rocker-org/rocker/blob/master/r-devel/Dockerfile#L76 I've also compiled R (again, in Docker) and tested with that, and gotten the same results. It basically uses just `./configure --without-recommended-packages` and then `make`. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
