[racket] DrRacket Crashes?

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Sat Dec 22 12:04:00 EST 2012

Thanks for checking again. I had missed the Win64-specific bug, which
is now fixed for the next build.

At Fri, 21 Dec 2012 18:03:58 -0500, Adam Golding wrote:
> 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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