From rhelp at eoos.dds.nl  Fri Jan 16 15:21:42 2015
From: rhelp at eoos.dds.nl (Jan van der Laan)
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 15:21:42 +0100
Subject: [Rd] Request for help with UBSAN and total absense of CRAN
 response
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Dirk,

The vagrant setup I use to test my packages with UBSAN also seems to  
replicate the error reported by CRAN (together with some other  
warnings). I have attached the files (I hope they get through the  
filters). I suppose you know what to do with them.

Jan





Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> schreef:

> CRAN has a package of mine in upload limbo because it failed UBSAN.
>
> I am not entirely ignorant on the topic of sanitizers and SAN / ASAN / UBSAN;
> we created not one but two Docker containers with ASAN and USBAN:
>
>    https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/rocker/r-devel-san/
>    https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/rocker/r-devel-ubsan-clang/
>
> as well as predecessors to them in earlier Docker repos.
>
> Yet I fail to recreate the errors reported by CRAN:
>
>     
> http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/bdr/memtests/UBSAN-clang-trunk/RcppAnnoy/tests/runUnitTests.Rout
>     
> http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/bdr/memtests/UBSAN/RcppAnnoy/tests/runUnitTests.Rout
>
> I asked politely (and twice) for help with the corresponding compiler
> configuration(s).  But CRAN is of course way above communicating with mere
> mortals such as yours truly.
>
> So I have no recourse other than to spam all of you: if anybody here has a
> working UBSAN setup which can replicate the issue seen in the (rather small)
> RcppAnnoy package?
>
> Erik (upstream for Annoy, CC'ed) and I would be most grateful.  We do not
> like being held hostage on an error report we cannot replicate and for which
> we do not receive any help (or even further communication) whatsoever.
>
> Dirk
> about to turn into yet another frustrated CRAN user
>
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[Rd] Request for help with UBSAN and total absense of CRAN response
Jan van der Laan