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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