From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Thu Dec 10 12:55:50 2009
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:55:50 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Rd] Antwort: Re:  Crash with Unicode and sub (PR#14114)
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On Thu, 10 Dec 2009, g.russell at eos-solutions.com wrote:

> I don't know about the technicalities, but Peter Dalgaard said the
> offending code also causes R to come to a stop using SUSE + WINE. Is it
> possible to run that lot on top of valgrind? Of course, it will probably
> take all day ...

Yes, but not the part about 'a valgrind-instrumented build of R'. 
Since otherwise valgrind will not get under the hood of the R garbage 
collector (where the crash is) that does not usually help on Linux.


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[Rd] Antwort: Re: Crash with Unicode and sub (PR#14114)
Prof Brian Ripley