[racket] why a segfault on the command line, but not in DrRacket?

Does your program use any foreign libraries? That behavior sounds typical of memory-management problems.

> On Dec 30, 2014, at 11:47 AM, Matthew Butterick <mb at mbtype.com> wrote:
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> I have a program that consistently works in DrRacket regardless of input size. 
> 
> But on the command line, once input exceeds a certain threshold, the program consistently dies with a "Segmentation fault: 11 (core dumped)" error (though it works with smaller files). I'm invoking `racket` without any special flags, like so:
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> racket main.rkt
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> I know which line of my program is triggering the segfault. But since the error is related to the input size and the use of command-line Racket, I think I ought to look elsewhere for the cause.
> 
> Are there particular command-line flags that can be helpful in diagnosing segfaults? Is a segfault like this typically due to running out of memory?
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