On May 13, 2004, at 12:29 AM, Andrew P. Black wrote:

> Yes, that is of course right.  It would be impractical to go "cold 
> turkey".   I don't know enough about the way that signals or 
> interrupts are translated into Squeak to comment on whether it would 
> be a problem for the VM to support both mechanisms for a while.  I was 
> hoping that the representations could be close enough that the VM 
> wouldn't have to care which it was signalling - which is when I came 
> up against the problem that care or not, it decided to insert an 
> explicit test.

It would be fairly easy to build a VM without these checks.  If you 
load VMMaker, you can see them in Interpreter>>primitiveSignal and 
Interpreter>>primitiveWait.  Comment out the checks, and follow the 
VMMaker docs to regenerate the sources and rebuild.

If you happen to be on Mac OS X I can try to build a VM for you, just 
let me know.

Avi