Dear Laurent,
could you please provide a complete reproducible example where parsing
results in a crash of R? Calling parse(text="list(''=123") from R works
fine for me (gives Error: attempt to use zero-length variable name).
I don't think the problem you observed could be related to the memory
leak. The leak is on the heap, not stack.
Zero-length names of elements in a list are allowed. They are not the
same thing as zero-length variables in an environment. If you try to
convert "lst" from your example to an environment, you would get the
error (attempt to use zero-length variable name).
Best
Tomas
On 11/30/19 11:55 PM, Laurent Gautier wrote:
Hi again,
Beside R_ParseVector()'s possible inconsistent behavior, R's handling of
zero-length named elements does not seem consistent either:
```
lst <- list()
lst[[""]] <- 1
names(lst)
[1] ""
list("" = 1)
Error: attempt to use zero-length variable name
```
Should the parser be made to accept as valid what is otherwise possible
when using `[[<` ?
Best,
Laurent
Le sam. 30 nov. 2019 à 17:33, Laurent Gautier <lgaut...@gmail.com> a écrit :
I found the following code comment in `src/main/gram.c`:
```
/* Memory leak
yyparse(), as generated by bison, allocates extra space for the parser
stack using malloc(). Unfortunately this means that there is a memory
leak in case of an R error (long-jump). In principle, we could define
yyoverflow() to relocate the parser stacks for bison and allocate say on
the R heap, but yyoverflow() is undocumented and somewhat complicated
(we would have to replicate some macros from the generated parser here).
The same problem exists at least in the Rd and LaTeX parsers in tools.
*/
```
Could this be related to be issue ?
Le sam. 30 nov. 2019 à 14:04, Laurent Gautier <lgaut...@gmail.com> a
écrit :
Hi,
The behavior of
```
SEXP R_ParseVector(SEXP, int, ParseStatus *, SEXP);
```
defined in `src/include/R_ext/Parse.h` appears to be inconsistent
depending on the string to be parsed.
Trying to parse a string such as `"list(''=1+"` sets the
`ParseStatus` to incomplete parsing error but trying to parse
`"list(''=123"` will result in R sending a message to the console (followed but
a crash):
```
R[write to console]: Error: attempt to use zero-length variable nameR[write to
console]: Fatal error: unable to initialize the JIT*** stack smashing detected ***:
<unknown> terminated
```
Is there a reason for the difference in behavior, and is there a workaround ?
Thanks,
Laurent
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