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2011 Aug 13
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Latent flaw in SEXPREC definition
...SEXPREC
in Rinternals.h, which likely doesn't cause problems now, but could
if the relative sizes of data types changes.
The SEXPREC structure contains a union that includes a primsxp,
symsxp, etc, but not a vecsxp. However, in allocVector in memory.c,
zero-length vectors are allocated using allocSExpNonCons, which
appears to allocates a SEXPREC structure. This won't work if a vecsxp
is larger than the other types that are in the union in the SEXPREC
structure.
Simply adding a vecsxp to the union would seem to fix this, as in
the following patch:
Index: src/include/Rinternals.h
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