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Rok Mihevc commented on ARROW-3362: ----------------------------------- This issue has been migrated to [issue #19693|https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/19693] on GitHub. Please see the [migration documentation|https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/14542] for further details. > [R] Guard against null buffers > ------------------------------ > > Key: ARROW-3362 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-3362 > Project: Apache Arrow > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: R > Reporter: Wes McKinney > Assignee: Romain Francois > Priority: Major > Fix For: 0.12.0 > > > The R C++ bindings feature a number of cases where a data buffer is being > accessed when it may possibly be null in the case of a 0-length array. This > will cause a segfault > https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/r/src/array.cpp#L245 > I suggest defining some helper functions as we have done elsewhere to assist > with getting a typed offset into a buffer but passing through nullptr if the > buffer object is null -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.20.10#820010)