Creating squeak pluggable primitives - a few ideas, some confusion, lookingfor like minded folks

Andrew C. Greenberg werdna at mucow.com
Sat Nov 10 19:50:37 UTC 2001


On Saturday, November 10, 2001, at 12:23  PM, Lex Spoon wrote:

> Personally, I find it fairly easy to get the general outline of Slang
> code correct, but I always run into a lot of segfaults while debugging
> it.  I do things like fail to pop things from the stack, or pop things
> in the wrong order, or I'll decode an object reference without checking
> that it was actually an object, or I'll push an integer without encoding
> it as an integer....  So many ways to bungle, most of which cause a
> segmentation fault.

This is one of the driving forces behind the "new" plugin code, hiding a 
fair amount of the ugliness of managing the linkage conventions.





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