[BUG] 3.6.2 VM has lost a primitive

Chris Muller afunkyobject at yahoo.com
Tue Apr 13 22:48:14 UTC 2004


Thank you, and sorry for the false alarm.  Feeling pretty stupid at the
moment..   :)  I didn't realize the VM versions were named consistently with
the Squeak version but, of course, that makes perfect sense.

Regards,
  Chris

--- Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> 
> > What must be done to get this into the latest VM?
> 
> You don't have to do anything if it's in the latest VMMaker as the 3.7ish
> VMs will support it. However, none have been built sofar (as I am busy with
> lots of other things) and I'm not planning to do so before 3.7 is finalized.
> So unless you have some urgent needs to use a later than 3.5 VM I'd
> recommend sticking with your custom VM.
> 
> Cheers,
>   - Andreas
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Chris Muller" <afunkyobject at yahoo.com>
> To: "Andreas Raab" <andreas.raab at gmx.de>; "Squeak List"
> <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> Cc: "Brent Pinkney" <brent.pinkney at aircom.co.za>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 10:45 PM
> Subject: Re: [BUG] 3.6.2 VM has lost a primitive
> 
> 
> >
> > > The changes you refer to were neither in the official 3.5 or 3.6
> release.
> > > Since I don't, for no reason whatsoever, include any "non-official"
> > > modifications to either ObjectMemory or Interpreter I can only assume
> that
> > > you have been using a custom VM which didn't change the version
> information
> > > accordingly (e.g., this isn't really THE 3.5.1 VM but rather A 3.5.1
> VM).
> >
> > Perhaps I was using a custom vm, sorry for that confusion.  Currently, we
> have
> > a bug in 3.7b, which is becomeForward:copyHash: results in a primitive
> failure.
> >  There are two parts for this to work, the image changes that call the new
> > method and the new primitive.
> >
> > This part says that the VM change was introduced in the VMMaker3-7a.sar
> > package.
> >
> >   http://impara.de/~bert/swiki.gsug.org/sqfixes/5393.html
> >
> > approved for 3.7a:
> >
> >   http://impara.de/~bert/swiki.gsug.org/sqfixes/5398.html
> >
> > closed:
> >
> >   http://impara.de/~bert/swiki.gsug.org/sqfixes/5522.html
> >
> > and added to the update stream as update 5578:
> >
> >   http://impara.de/~bert/swiki.gsug.org/sqfixes/5496.html
> >
> > at which thought it would perpetuate forward and was very happy.
> >
> > What must be done to get this into the latest VM?
> >
> > Thank you very much,
> >   Chris
> >
> 




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