Peter Dalgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Gavin Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
....
> > So far so good with FC4, gcc4, gfortran and R!
>
> The problem affecting the Fedora Extras RPM is still there with the
> new compilers though:
>
> -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
>
> combined with -O or -O2 causes a strange printing bug:
>
> > matrix(list(pi))
> [,1]
> [1,]
>
> (You don't have to use that option of course, but it suggests that not
> all is well with the optimizer. And the Fedora maintainer seem set on
> using it, which is a bit of a problem.)
I'm fairly sure by now that this is actually a bug in R, not gcc. We
have the same internal buffer structure used in EncodeReal and in
Rsprintf, and the return value of the former is buffer->data
which is reallocated by the latter.
That means that constructions of the form
pbuf = Rsprintf("%s", EncodeReal(REAL(tmp)[0], w, d, e, OutDec));
are playing with fire. There are quite a few other similar
constructions involving Encode*.
I suspect is is necessary to copy the result of
EncodeReal(REAL(tmp)[0], w, d, e, OutDec) to temp storage, or -
probably easier - use a separate buffer for Rsprintf.
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