> Does anybody know why this is?

Yup. The short answer is "don't do it" (I can give you a full explanation
over a beer ;-) If you want to add a class variable do it via:

CompiledMethod addClassVarName: 'Frobler'.

This will work.

Cheers,
  - Andreas

> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org 
> [mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On 
> Behalf Of Nathanael Schärli
> Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 3:15 PM
> To: 'The general-purpose Squeak developers list'
> Subject: Recompiling the class CompiledMethod
> 
> 
> Hi
> 
> I tried to add a class variable to the class CompiledMethod, but
> unfortunately, the class fails to be recompiled. The problem 
> is that the
> ClassBuilder needs to recreate all the instances of the old class so
> that they are instances of the new class. But this does not 
> work because
> CompiledMethod overrides basicNew: so that it cannot be 
> executed (i.e.,
> shouldNotImplement).
> 
> Even after I fixed this (i.e., after making sure that equivalent
> CompiledMethods with a new class can be created), it was still not
> possible to add a new class variable to CompiledMethod, because the
> ClassBuilder crashed the VM.
> 
> Does anybody know why this is?
> 
> Nathanael
> 
> 
>