Squeak VM crash

Brad Fuller brad at sonaural.com
Fri Sep 22 18:20:47 UTC 2006


John M McIntosh wrote:
> Well I think I mentioned before no-one has gone thru and preformed an
> audit to ensure the usage of memory address is resolves to a pointer
> which resolves to an unsigned integer, then looked at all the places
> where someone is doing math or compares on that value.
>
> To contribute a bit I'll undertaking looking at the mac carbon VM and
> put in the proper variable defs  in the osx carbon support code.
Thanks John. I logged this into Mantis: 0005056
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> On 22-Sep-06, at 7:53 AM, Brad Fuller wrote:
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>> I'm dumb... my apologies. <Bang Head>
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>> That's a serious issue. I don't see a FloatArrayPlugin. Is it the
>> FloatMathPlugin? It has some cross platform code. So, if it is from
>> this, it's a potential problem for all platforms.
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>> But, as you said it could be anywhere. Still, a serious issue.
>>
>> brad
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