[racket-dev] Unlucky with Racket 6.0 (1/2)

From: Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (samth at cs.indiana.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 12 18:38:45 EDT 2014

On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 6:35 PM, Paulo Matos <paulo at matos-sorge.com> wrote:
>
> So, I decide to run the gracket command under gdb but now it segfaults
> immediately without displaying drracket window.
> $ gdb --args /home/pmatos/local-install/racket-6.0/bin/../lib/gracket -N
> local-install/racket-6.0/bin/drracket -J DrRacket -l- drracket/drracket.rkt


Racket uses page faults to manage memory, so you need to do:

    (gdb) handle SIGSEGV nostop noprint

and then continue, and if there's an error, it will halt in `abort()`.

Sam

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