[racket-dev] ffi crash on callback during GC

On Nov 22, 2010, at 3:12 PM, Matthew Flatt wrote:

> At Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:00:01 -0800, John Clements wrote:
>> Taking a look at the crash report, I see that the crash appears to
>> happen when the callback is called by a C thread while Racket is
>> collecting garbage, [...]
>> 
>> So: is racket supposed to magically handle this?
> 
> Yes. I think this could be a bug in `#:async-apply' support, where I
> didn't think through the possibility of a GC during the callback. I'll
> work on that soon.

I just tried out your updated version of DrRacket, and I'm delighted to report that I'm no longer able to reproduce this crash.  It only happened about 1 in 3 times before the fix, so I can't say for sure, but it certainly appears that this bug is fixed.

Thanks!

John

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