[racket-dev] Release for v5.0.2 has begun

I am definitely using unsafe-vector-ref (and -set!) - a lot - with
contracted vectors. So, that is at least part of my problem. And, the newer
code uses many of the newer unsafe operations (like unsafe-fllog). This
weekend I will change all of the vector references and see how everything
runs with the pre-release version

Noel and Neil, were the unsafe-flround and unsafe-fllog problems you saw
just with the newer nightly builds or with the released version of Racket?
[I haven't had any problems with the released versions.]

Doug

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Neil Toronto <neil.toronto at gmail.com>wrote:

> Noel Welsh wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Doug Williams
>> <m.douglas.williams at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I downloaded the pre-release version this morning - 10/20 (I believe it
>>> was
>>> a build from 10/16). The plot package and plot extensions in the science
>>> collection all work as expected. But, I am getting different numeric
>>> answers
>>> for some of my science collection routines (for example, the gamma
>>> function)
>>> and some of my newer code (for example, FFT) either fails with an error
>>> message or DrRacket just dies. All of this code uses unsafe operations
>>> and
>>> the problem may lie there somewhere. I'll try digging more deeply this
>>> evening.
>>>
>>
>> There is a crash inducing bug in some uses of flround (at least, last
>> time I tried it). I haven't previously reported it as I haven't had
>> the time to narrow down the situation that causes it. My DCT package
>> on Github triggers it.
>>
>
> I've had unsafe-fllog crash DrRacket a few times. The symptoms are always
> consistent for me, but the bug fixers (Vincent and Matthew in this case)
> haven't been able to duplicate them. It's very context-sensitive (e.g. it
> depends whether printf and/or parameters are used nearby, and whether the
> unsafe-fllog comes from TR's optimizer), so it was very hard to narrow down
> in the first place.
>
> I'm thinking this is all the same thing, and JIT-related. (Except maybe
> Doug's is caused by chaperones.)
>
> Neil T
>
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