Ned,

I'm not quite sure if this answer will actually help you but it's the case
that there's some problem with the serial port access on MIPS. It turns out
that MIPS doesn't quite like unaligned accesses and (for some strange
reason) the serial port stuff causes an unaligned access (triggering an
exception which is not quite handled the right way). I've fixed that problem
in the support code (some time ago) but I'm not quite sure if the
precompiled VMs actually contain the fix. I'll check it out.

  - Andreas

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ned Konz [mailto:ned at bike-nomad.com]
> Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 4:31 PM
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> Subject: Virtual memory error (2.7 on Windows/CE)
> 
> 
> On 2.7, Windows/CE (MIPS),
> 
> I tried
> 
> p := SerialPort new openPort: 0.
> 
> which got a walkback on a failed primitive. I hit "Proceed" after
> examining things a bit in the debugger.
> 
> Then I tried to send bytes to the port, and got a dialog box 
> that said:
> 
> Squeak Virtual Memory Problem
> page (18010000) not in bounds (44000000 - 44d12800) in
> sqMemIsReservedPage.
> Squeak will crash RIGHT NOW.
> 
> And it crashed.
> 
> So I have a couple of questions:
> 
> 1. Is the serial port stuff compiled in to the kernel available from
> Andreas' site?
> 
> 2. Does this sort of error occur frequently, or is this a bug 
> in the VM
> or runtime?
> 
> -- 
> Ned Konz
> currently: Stanwood, WA
> email:     ned at bike-nomad.com
> homepage:  http://bike-nomad.com, Perl homepage:
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>