code updates beyond #5500 [VM]

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Sun Feb 8 17:37:16 UTC 2004


On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 05:24:47PM +0100, Chris Burkert wrote:
> Stefan Schmiedl wrote:
> [snip]
> > Is this 
> > (a) a known problem?
> > (b) me being dumb?
> > (c) some unfortunate combination of squeak and my linux box?
> 
> I believe this is (a) a known problem. Take a look at [1] and 
> build a new VM.
> 
> Regards
>             Chris Burkert
> 1: 
> http://people.squeakfoundation.org/person/KenCausey/diary.html?start=0

The problem occurs at update number 5501, which recreates the special objects
array. At this point the stock Unix VM blows up. Ned's "float bug fix" does
seem to cure the problem, as per Chris' reference above.

Dave




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