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vrom
2016 May 12
3
Suggestion: mkString(NULL) should be NA
I would like to propose that Rf_mkString(NULL) and Rf_mkChar(NULL)
return NA rather than segfault.
Case: the mkString() and mkChar() functions are convenient to wrap
strings returned by e.g. external C libraries into an R vector.
However sometimes a library returns NULL instead of a string when the
result is unavailable. In some C libraries this can happen
unexpectedly or is even undocumented.
A
2016 May 24
2
Suggestion: mkString(NULL) should be NA
...at stat.ucla.edu>
wrote:
> On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 1:20 PM, Jeroen Ooms <jeroen.ooms at stat.ucla.edu>
> wrote:
> > I would like to propose that Rf_mkString(NULL) and Rf_mkChar(NULL)
> > return NA rather than segfault.
>
> An example implementation: https://git.io/vroxm
>
> With this patch, mkChar(NULL), mkCharCE(NULL, ce) would return
> NA_STRING rather than segfault at strlen(NULL). This automatically
> fixes mkString(NULL) as well which wraps mkChar (See Rinlinedfuns.h).
>
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