Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0212120706200.30958-100000@gannet.stats>
Date: 2002-12-12T08:11:03Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: Problem with dyn.load in R1.6.1
In-Reply-To: <3DF80FBC.7E74733B@buseco.monash.edu.au>
No deliberate change (it _was_ a patch release). However, this is a not
uncommon occurence with code that is incorrect and corrupts memory or the
stack: sometimes you get away with it on some platforms. We found that
with a version of the tseries package: it worked on 1.6.0 but not 1.6.1 on
Windows. (The problem was a .C call with one too few arguments.)
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Rob Hyndman wrote:
> I've been successfully using a dll via dyn.load() with R1.6.0 for
> Windows, but when I try it under R1.6.1 it manages to crash the program
> completely. Has there been a change in how R1.6.1 handles dynamic
> loading? I couldn't spot any such changes in the documentation. This
> problem occurred on two different machines, and both run the code under
> R1.6.0 without a problem.
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