[plt-scheme] Bugs in 349.100 (unable to use bug reporting tool)

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Mon Jun 12 12:01:31 EDT 2006

At Sat, 10 Jun 2006 21:06:16 -0400, Ittai Balaban wrote:
> [...] the *3m executables
> hang on startup while CPU usage climbs to 100%.

This is now fixed in SVN.

There was a coercion in the GC from a function pointer to a signed
number that should have been an unsigned number. The crash depended on
the particular addresses for certain functions as chosen by the loader.

Thanks very much for the report!
Matthew



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