[racket] Racket newbie questions

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Mon May 6 07:57:06 EDT 2013

At Sun, 05 May 2013 21:45:20 -0500, John Gateley wrote:
> 6) Finally, for tonight, here's a way to crash DrRacket in 64
> bit Windows 7. I've attached two files, main.rkt and manuscript.rkt.
> Start DrRacket, open "main.rkt", open "manuscript.rkt" (which
> opens a second window), switch to the "main.rkt" window, press
> the "Run" button, then press the "Debug" button. You get the dreaded
> "DrRacket has stopped working" dialog.

Assuming that you're using v5.3.3, can you check whether the crash
happen the current candidate for the next release?:

   http://pre.racket-lang.org/release/installers/

There was a bug specific to 64-bit Windows that took us a long time to
track down (in particular, I had trouble replicating reported crashes),
but I think it's now fixed.

Thanks!


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