I think it needs to be strlen()+1, for the terminating null, or you'll
just be pray for your luck that your compiler actually
null-pad allocations to the nearest 4-byte or whatever and
so your program doesn't crash as it should later when you
try to read argV elsewhere. As for the other question a
UPDATE: Okay I've narrowed the problem down. Within my C routine I use the
getopt() method from . For some reason when I recall this routine
via my .Call, getopt() hasn't "refreshed" that is it still points to the end
of my parsed command line arguments. Is R keeping this function alive in
memo
