(Debian Bug 344248): R segfaults when pressing Delete (PR#8422)
<ripley <at> stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:
Can you confirm you are running rl5.1? Given the segfault is readline not
Yes: readline 5.1, just like the bug submitter (see at the very bottom).
compatible version of a dynamic library so it seems to me the bug should be assigned to readline not R.
Looks like it, yes. And from looking at http://bugs.debian.org/libreadline5 it seems that the same behaviour was just found with gdb. Thanks for the quick replies! Dirk
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