[Rcpp-devel] Runtime error from Rcpp::depends with gcc sanitizers

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 12 February 2019 at 14:10, Ralf Stubner wrote:
| Hi list,
| 
| I run into run-time errors when using rhub::check_with_sanitizers(),
| which can be reproduced like this:
| 
| $ docker run -it --rm rhub/rocker-gcc-san bash
| root at c56cfa20e903:/# RDscript -e "install.packages('Rcpp')"
| [...]
| root at c56cfa20e903:/# cat > foo.cpp
| #include <Rcpp.h>
| // [[Rcpp::depends(Matrix)]]
| 
| // [[Rcpp::export]]
| int foo() { return 0; }
| 
| root at c56cfa20e903:/# RDscript -e "Rcpp::sourceCpp('foo.cpp')"
| attributes.cpp:168:11: runtime error: load of value 104, which is not a
| valid value for type 'bool'
| attributes.cpp:168:11: runtime error: load of value 2, which is not a
| valid value for type 'bool'
| 
| There is no error if I omit Rcpp::depends:
| 
| root at c56cfa20e903:/# cat > bar.cpp
| #include <Rcpp.h>
| 
| // [[Rcpp::export]]
| int foo() { return 0; }
| 
| root at c56cfa20e903:/# RDscript -e "Rcpp::sourceCpp('bar.cpp')"
| root at c56cfa20e903:/#
| 
| These errors do not occur in the tests run by CRAN (or they are filtered
| out there). Does anyone have an idea where this might come from and how
| it could be fixed?

I don't :-/  These tools are very helpful, but on occassion also very finicky.

Dirk

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