On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Matthew Wiener wrote:
>
> Hi. I'm still working on figuring out why some C code that interfaced
> nicely with R-1.1.1 is causing segmentation faults in R-1.2.0. Brian
> Ripley advised me that R-1.2.0 can be more sensitive to array overruns
> than was R-1.1.1, so I'm looking for overruns. But in the course of
> running R with a debugger I've come across something else.
>
> Without thinking about it much, I put the dyn.load statement loading my
> compiled code into the function immediately before the code is called.
> This means that the dyn.load call is being executed over and over. This
> has never seemed to cause a problem, but under the debugger I get an error
> after several times that some address cannot be accessed (the exact
> address changes from time to time). If I'm not in the debugger, this
> doesn't happen, but perhaps it has something to do with my eventual
memory
> corruption.
>
> So my question is: can multiple loading of code cause a problem? If so,
> what kind?
Well, there are finite resources in src/unix/dynload.c, like for 100
loads.
> Also, I'll try loading the code in my .First function instead. Can
this
> lead to any problems (like memory issues if I load lots of functions)?
Not at all. You only load the code, don't find all the entry points.
It is what we advise.
>
> I'm working on an alpha running Red Hat Linux.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt Wiener
>
>
>
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