Tim,

> Sounds plausible to me but we will have to remember to update those
> primitives that are generated from code outside VMMaker.
> MiscPrimitivePlugin for example.

The translator should raise Big Ugly Notifiers if you use // or \\ - this
will point out in no unclear terms that there's a problem.

> I notice that Bitmap>encodeInt:in:at: for example uses both // and \\
> so we'd need to make sure it works for translation and direct running.

That's the idea behind div: and mod:, e.g., we'd just define:

Number>>div: aNumber
    "Divide the receiver by aNumber. This method must be used by translated
primitives to provide the same semantics both in Squeak as well as in
translated C."
    ^self quo: aNumber

Cheers,
  - Andreas