To all and sundry, near and far, Ivan Krylov in particular .... (The latter being singled out because he was so helpful the last time I asked a question on this issue. My apologies to him if I am being a pest.) I have again been beset by a "stack smashing" problem when trying to run R code that calls upon dynamically loaded Fortran. I have now reached the end of my limited mental resources in trying to solve this problem, so I am beseeching R-help to come to my assistance. I have applied valgrind to try to track down the source of the problem. I.e. I started R using "R -d valgrind". The output from trying to run my code is in the attached file "vgo.txt". All that I can discern from this output is that something went wrong. The "location" of the problem seems to be specified as line 85 in the Fortran file "getgl.f", but this is the last line ("end") of that file, so this just seems to be saying that there is something wrong, somewhere in this file! I have bundled up all of the components of a reproducible example in a "shell archive" that I have named "shark.txt" (which is attached). To investigate the problem: * unpack the shell archive using "sh shark.txt" * create a shared object library using "R CMD SHLIB -o hah.so *.f" * start R using "R -d valgrind" * source the file "scr" (from the archive) using 'source("scr")' The shell archive concept is peculiar to Unix/Linux, but apparently there is an application called "ZipZag" which can be used by Windoze users to unpack shell archives (if any such users are interested). I have gone over and over my code, to the point of madness, looking for argument miss-matches in the calls in this code, and for screw-ups in the dimension statements, and can find none. They must be there somewhere, but I cannot see them. Can anyone help me? Note that the code in the *.f files is very opaque, since the code was originally written in Ratfor and then compiled into Fortran. The Ratfor code is much more perspicuous, so I have included the corresponding *.r files so as to possibly provide some enlightenment. If you have ratfor on your system, you can do things like "ratfor getgl.r > getgl.f" to recreate the *.f files. Thanks for any assistance. cheers, Rolf Turner -- Honorary Research Fellow Department of Statistics University of Auckland Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276 -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: vgo.txt URL: <https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/attachments/20220411/52f90f93/attachment.txt> -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: UoA Secure Email Gateway Notifications<secure-email-gateway-notifications at auckland.ac.nz> Subject: shark_txt was removed from this message Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 15:25:53 +1200 Size: 2098 URL: <https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/attachments/20220411/52f90f93/attachment.mht>