memory and VM issues

John M McIntosh johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com
Fri Jul 22 17:14:36 UTC 2005


On 22-Jul-05, at 8:28 AM, Ross Boylan wrote:
>
> Does this mean the error is safe to ignore, or do I need to do
> something to deal with the problem?  I take it the change is also  
> not in the
> unreleased tweak to VMMaker that Tim suggested using (38b4).

This is safe to ignore, however you can first visit

ObjectMemory(class)>>initializeSpecialObjectIndices
and delete
     FloatProto _ 31.

then file things in.

> I infer that simply not filing this in to the image from which I willl
> build the new VM is not acceptable, right?
>
> Each attempt takes about 45 minutes, so I'm trying to reduce the
> number of attempts :(.

The Smalltalk recreateSpecialObjectsArray was done as part of  
Andreas' changes for multiple language
support, this is already done in 3.8-6665. I suggest removing it to  
see if the crash you get goes away.
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