[racket] DrRacket Crashes?

From: Adam Golding (adamgolding at adamgolding.com)
Date: Fri Dec 21 18:03:58 EST 2012

I'm still getting the crash using the first method on:

DrRacket version 5.3.1.10--2012-12-20(8d5a069/a) [3m]

On 19 December 2012 13:12, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:

> I think the problem was a memory-management issue in the JPEG binding,
> since the crash I provoked was in libjpeg.
>
> After fixing that problem (pushed to the git repo), I'm no longer able
> to provoke a crash. I'd appreciate further checking with the latest
> sources or the next nightly build by anyone who was able to provoke the
> crash before.
>
> At Wed, 19 Dec 2012 10:01:22 -0700, Matthew Flatt wrote:
> > I have been able to replicate the crash, so we should be able to fix
> > the problem.
> >
> > Thanks for the report!
> >
> > At Mon, 17 Dec 2012 18:07:00 -0500, Adam Golding wrote:
> > > Hi, DrRacket is crashing while I am using this code (from 'picturing
> > > programs'):
> > >
> > > (require picturing-programs)
> > >
> > > (big-bang (overlay pic:calendar (rectangle 100 100 "solid" "white"))
> > > (on-draw show-it) (on-tick rotate-cw 1/2))
> > >
> > > To reproduce:
> > >
> > > 1. Start Dr. Racket
> > > 2. Paste the above code in the definitions pane
> > > 3. Press CTRL+R
> > > 4. Left-click the 'x' to close the resulting animation window
> > > 5. Press CTRL+R
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I'm using Dr. Racket 5.3 on Win 7 64-bit.
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