On 4/20/10 6:24 AM, Melissa Jane Hubisz wrote:
Thanks for the responses. Seth's example is indeed what I was trying (hoping) to do, it seems to work on my system fine (ubuntu x86_64, R 2.10.1). But if it doesn't work for him, then that definitely answers my question. I guess I'll have to go the Calloc/Free route.
I expect that you could get your approach to not work on your system as well, you just have to try harder ;-)
Memory related bugs can be quite tricky, because incorrect code may run fine most of the time. To trigger a problem, you need to have the right pattern of allocation such that data will be written over the memory that your invalid external pointer points to.
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