Mac VM 3.0.5MT (Danger Danger)

Raab, Andreas Andreas.Raab at disney.com
Wed Feb 14 01:32:54 UTC 2001


Ahem. Sorry for the confusion. Happens when you write email while talking on
the phone. You hit reply on the wrong message and there you have it...

  - Andreas

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Raab, Andreas [mailto:Andreas.Raab at disney.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 5:21 PM
> To: 'squeak at cs.uiuc.edu'
> Cc: recipient list not shown
> Subject: RE: Mac VM 3.0.5MT (Danger Danger)
> 
> 
> Ted,
> 
> Did these happen in a fully updated image?
> 
>   - Andreas
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dan Ingalls [mailto:Dan.Ingalls at disney.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 4:49 PM
> > To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> > Cc: recipient list not shown
> > Subject: Re: Mac VM 3.0.5MT (Danger Danger)
> > 
> > 
> > >>Well, it's likely a bug with the new gamma image, since I 
> > can use the
> > >>old image updated through the 3.1alpha stream just fine, 
> > with both the
> > >>old and new VM.
> > >
> > >Ya, but if the image is corrupt, then it's my fault, since the VM 
> > >must have alters some bits somewhere it should not have!
> > >
> > >I know it lkupClass gets set to 8, which is a bad thing if 
> > you follow 
> > >the logic. Thus I must assume some VM Code I've changed has 
> > >introduced usage of a bad pointer somewhere which trashs just the 
> > >right value.
> > 
> > Folks -
> > 
> > I think this is not a problem with the VM nor with the image. 
> >  There is no guarantee that the fully updated image can run 
> > the 3.1 updates from the beginning, since they essentially 
> > repeat the same updates, but under the wrong conditions.  As 
> > soon as I get a chance, I'll change the end-of-3.0 bumper 
> > file and make it smarter in this regard (should start at 
> > #3584 (yet to come)).
> > 
> > 	- Dan
> > 
> > 
> 





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