History of the parsing of "file:" URLs for Windows:
* In response to PR 8060 (April 2006): special handling added to
support ill-formed URLs that were (are?) commonly used for
filesystem paths.
* Follow-up to PR 8060 (April 2008): added `path->url` and
`url->path`.
* In response to #1086 (October 2015, the commit): changed
Windows-specific handling to be more constrained and added support
for the proper encoding of UNC paths --- where "proper" means
"according to a blog post from late 2006", which appears to be as
close as we get to documentation of the URL encoding for Windows
paths.
When a compiler is run in standards mode, predefined macros that
do not start with "_" are dropped, so use the "_" versions
consistently. Whether or not Racket itself would compile in
standards mode, the Racket headers should be able to work that
way --- at least on Unix platforms.
In Mac OS X 10.11, something about the use of exceptions triggers
a libunwind stack traversal, and that traversal runs into trouble
with Racket's stack mangling for threads. Inserting generated code
in the stack frame sequence causes libunwind to give up and avoids
a crash (e.g., with `-j -l drracket` on startup).
After some expansions, a expression with the syntax property 'inferred-name of
'x is converted to one with ('x . 'x), so it's not useful to get the name of a
procedure. So we simplify the syntax property 'inferred-name to handle
these cases.
When a place message is deserialized by simply adopting the page
containing the message, the adoption can trigger a garbage
collection, but there's still a pointer to a chain of objects
"in flight" in the thread, and a GC can discard the pairs that
form the chain.
Removing all original module context doesn't work, because it
doesn't distinguish between fragments of syntax that had the
"inside-edge" scope without the "outside-edge" scope.
Record the presence of the outside-edge scope by using the
root scope, and convert the root scope to the current namespace's
outside-edge scope on evaluation.
The bug could cause
#lang racket/base
(define x 'outer)
(define-syntax-rule (def-and-use-m given-x)
(begin
(define-syntax-rule (m)
(let ()
(define given-x 'inner)
x))
(m)))
(def-and-use-m x)
to produce 'inner when it should produce 'outer.
Thanks to Brian Mastenbrook for pointing the problem and
providing examples.
Interrupting bytecode unmarshal for syntax objects could leave
half-constructed values in a table that is intended to resolve graph
structure. Clear out work towards a graph construction when
interrupted.
The most common symptom of half-constructed syntax objects was a crash
after a Ctl-C during startup.
