From p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk  Fri Jun 27 17:58:37 2003
From: p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard BSA)
Date: Fri Jun 27 18:59:34 2003
Subject: [Rd] Update on "Shift-Return causes segfault (PR#3293)"
In-Reply-To: <200306271611.h5RGB4JH010679@pubhealth.ku.dk>
References: <200306271611.h5RGB4JH010679@pubhealth.ku.dk>
Message-ID: <x27k77jw2p.fsf@biostat.ku.dk>

Graeme.Ambler@bristol.ac.uk writes:

> e) The most helpful error message we can generate is:
> 
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x400dd7fe in _rl_dispatch_subseq ()
>    from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2.2/../../../libreadline.so.4
> 
> implying that there is some strange interaction going on with readline, and 
> that the bug may be in readline rather than R.
> 
> f) The bug does not seem to be present in R-1.6.2, though this is only my 
> experience, not anyone elses.  Peter Dalgaard HAS reproduced the bug in 
> R-1.7.0.

..and I just now found a SuSE machine still running 1.6.0 which is
also immune to the problem.

-- 
   O__  ---- Peter Dalgaard             Blegdamsvej 3  
  c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics     2200 Cph. N   
 (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen   Denmark      Ph: (+45) 35327918
~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk)             FAX: (+45) 35327907


[Rd] Update on "Shift-Return causes segfault (PR#3293)"
Peter Dalgaard BSA