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Core dump with R --encoding=foo -e 1 (non-existing encoding)

3 messages · Duncan Murdoch, Henrik Bengtsson

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Trying to launch R with a *non-existing* encoding core dumps/crashes,
e.g. R --encoding=foo -e 1.

EXAMPLES:
R version 3.0.1 (2013-05-16) -- "Good Sport"
Copyright (C) 2013 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0 (64-bit)
[...]
*** caught segfault ***
address 0xffffffffffffffff, cause 'memory not mapped'
aborting ...
Segmentation fault


% R --encoding=foo -e 1
R version 3.0.0 (2013-04-03) -- "Masked Marvel"
Copyright (C) 2013 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)
[...]
(not sure if the above is a core dump, but the expression is not
echoed/evaluated)


%R --encoding=foo -e 1 (also Rterm --encoding=foo -e 1)
R Under development (unstable) (2013-07-26 r63419) -- "Unsuffered Consequences"
Copyright (C) 2013 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
[...]
[crashes "R for Windows terminal front-end"]


Should I file a bug report?

/Henrik
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On 13-07-28 1:31 PM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
The general rule is that if a crash like that occurs in both the release 
version (which is 3.0.1, not 3.0.0) and R-patched, you should file a bug 
report.

If it only occurs in R-patched or in R-devel, then a message to this 
list is probably better.

If it only occurs in the release but not R-patched, then no report is 
necessary:  it has been fixed.

Duncan Murdoch
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On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Duncan Murdoch
<murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for the prompt reply; I've submitted PR#15405
[https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15405]

/Henrik