[datatable-help] crash bug in 1.7.3 on R pre-2.14.0

Matthew Dowle mdowle at mdowle.plus.com
Mon Nov 28 09:18:06 CET 2011


Recently released v1.7.3 appears to be unstable in R pre-2.14.0. Post
2.14.0 it's fine I believe. Looking into a fix ...

The over-allocation in 1.7.3 uses truelength. This is initialized to 0
by R 2.14.0+, but not initialized in pre-2.14.0. Thought I'd worked
around that but seems not.

Matthew




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