A phantom byte string is a small object that the memory
manager treats as an arbitrary-sized object, where the
size is specified when the phantom byte string is created
or or when size is changed via `set-phantom-bytes!'.
Keep track of whether any Racket-managed subprocesses are pending,
and use waitpid(0, ...) only if there is one, to better cooperate
with an embedding environment.
Also, add a chapter to the "Inside" manual to explain the issues.
As long as some thread is ready to run, and in case the threads
synchronize after very little work, keep checking threads for
at least one thread quantum.
Allowing them would require support for immutable fxvectors and
flvectors, interning, and more. Since the motivation for reader
support is to make marshaling and unmarshaling easier, allow
them only in `read' mode. Change printing to make then unquotable.
Also, describe the patch in the Windows build notes.
This change increases access to symbol fonts, though not in a
completely consistent and portable way. See the closed problem
report for more information, as well as a 24-NOV-2012 post
on the Racket mailing list:
http://lists.racket-lang.org/users/archive/2012-November/055141.html
Closes PR 13300
This change makes document building --- and specially incremental
document building --- more scalable. The global duplicate-definition
check is handled by a database query, for example.
A bogus flag was propagated to closure information. This flag
was ignored by the validator, but not `zo-parse'. Make the validator
reject the bogus flag, too, while fixing the compiler.
This one is related to shifting type info when the closure is
made smaller due to lifting of something that used to be in
the closure. The `games/pousse/robot' module exposed the bug.
This is another old bug that could have caused validation failures
with flonums, but it showed up with fixnum tracking because fixnums
are more common (e.g., from `string-length').
There were really two bugs: information installed at the
wrong offet in one place, and a failure to detect that information
should be propagated in a different place. Fixing both avoids
a validation problem with `html/sgml-reader'.
Instead of keeping offsets in terms of `double's, keep it in
terms of bytes. This change is a step toward putting other kinds
of values on the flostack, such as extended-precision floats.
The last argument in a self-tail cal is treated specially and
not immediately stored on the "runstack". Space was formerly
allocated for it, though, and under certain circumstances
that space was not initialized. I think a combination of thread
timing, GC timing, and flonum boxing could potentially lead to a
crash (but constructing a test case is really difficult).
The scheme_generate_arith() function effectively had its own
copy of of the general scheme_generate_two_args() function that
predates the general one. Using scheme_generate_two_args()
instead simplifies and clarifies the code.
