On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 11:18:50AM +0100, Keith Hodges wrote:
> Eliot Miranda wrote:
> >David,
> >
> >    thanks a lot!  I have some integration to do :)   Not least I want 
> >to integrate the pragma support in 3.9 back into 3.8 because using 
> >pragmas instead of the null statements (self var: #foo type: #barf) 
> >etc is so much nicer.  I also have to produce bootstraps for the 
> >closure compiler in a few images, e.g. Croquet 1.0, 3.9, 3.10 & Spoon. 
> > Once I get the Croquet bootstrap done I would welcome volunteers for 
> >the others.
> >
> >cheers!
> I am curious as to how you intent to distribute these backported 
> bootstraps? Is this something 
> http://installer.pbwiki.com/LevelPlayingField can help you with?

I will put the bug fixes on Mantis in the usual manner, probably within
the next two weeks. I'll also post a copy of this to the vm-dev list so
it does not get lost.

The main part of the work (MemoryAccess class replacing C macros in the
support code) is just a hobby experiment and may never be suitable for
general use. If it did turn out to be unexpected popular or useful, I would
still have a lot more work to do before it could be supported in VMMaker.
I would need to make sure that the InterpreterSimulator still works, and
I'd have to reorganize it in some way to make it possible to easily turn
off this "feature" for the 99% of folks who would prefer VM speed over VM
hackability. To be clear, I have no plan to do any of this.

Dave