Mac VM 3.7.1b2 (for testing)

Bruce ONeel edoneel at sdf.lonestar.org
Fri Jan 9 16:28:34 UTC 2004


Hi,

Thanks, this is now at:

ftp://st.cs.uiuc.edu/pub/Smalltalk/Squeak/3.7alpha/mac/squeak3.7.1b2-mac
-vm.sit

cheers

bruce

John M McIntosh <johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com> wrote:
> Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 21:44:25 -0800
> From: John M McIntosh <johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com>
> Subject: Mac VM 3.7.1b2 (for testing)
> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> reply-to: The general-purpose Squeak developers list <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> 
> I've pushed a Mac VM 3.7.1b2 for testing to
> 
> http://homepage.mac.com/johnmci/
> 
> Squeak 3.7.1Beta2.app.sit
> 
> It contains:
> 
> 3.7.1b2		
> a) JPEG READER WRITER
> Usage of Apple '-fast' uncovered a source code issue, initialization  
> routines for internal jpeg plugin were not returning true or false,  
> before this was kinda of considered as returning true? But when  
> compiled with -fast it's zero, meaning the inialization failed, but  
> that is bogus.
> 
> b) Use of "-fast" apple gcc 3.3 compiler option, improves sends by  
> significant %
> 
> c) Broke high bit ascii macroman in 3.7.0bx. On EventKeyUp/EventKeyDown  
> you get the UniCode On EventKeyChar you now get the UniCode->MacRoman  
> translated character. For multi-byte character input you get  
> EventKeyDown/EventKeyChar/EventKeyUp for each unicode character coming  
> from the input sequence.
> 
> 
> Please note that I've a 3.7.1b3 pending due to window open issue in  
> os-x 10.3.2, but please try this VM
> for speed/performance and correctness. OS-9 Users please note I did not  
> rev the os-9 binary because these are os-x specific issues
> being fixed at this time.
> 
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