Wrong vector size reported by error message

Hi Oleg,

Oleg Sklyar wrote:

my R-SVN revision is 40458 compared to 40386 yours, could it be
corrected already?

No I don't think so. Maybe an architecture specific problem?
You are on a 64-bit system, I'm on a 32-bit system.

I was able to reproduce on 3 systems so far (with any version of R):
  - on my Pentium M laptop with Ubuntu 6.06
  - on a Linux SUSE 9.2 32-bit system
  - on a Core 1 Duo (32-bit) Mac Mini

All those systems are 32-bits.

I've tried on a couple of 64-bit systems and I don't get this problem.

Cheers,
H.

* ~: R

2**30

[1] 1073741824

a<-2:1073741824

Error: cannot allocate vector of size 4194304 Kb

sessionInfo()

R version 2.5.0 Under development (unstable) (2007-01-22 r40548)
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

locale:
LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C


attached base packages:
[1] "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices" "utils"     "datasets"  "methods"
[7] "base"
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Dr Oleg Sklyar | EBI-EMBL, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK | +44-1223-494466


hpages at fhcrc.org wrote:

Hi,

On my system, I get the following error message:

  > big <- 2:(2**30)

  Error: cannot allocate vector of size 0 Kb

Note the wrong "size 0 Kb" in the message!

Cheers,
H.

sessionInfo()

R version 2.5.0 Under development (unstable) (2007-01-05 r40386)
i686-pc-linux-gnu

locale:
LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_CA.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_CA.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=en_CA.UTF-8;LC_MESSAGES=en_CA.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_CA.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_CA.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C


attached base packages:
[1] "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices" "utils"     "datasets"  "methods"
[7] "base"