Hi Andreas,

	I was about to write to you because I suspected of the semaphores.
Thanks for the workarround I'll try it as soon as I can. A curios fact is it
wont happen in an ubuntu (32bits).

	thanks again I will provide feedback of my win32 experience,

	cheers

Sebastian Sastre


 

> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org 
> [mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] En 
> nombre de Andreas Raab
> Enviado el: Jueves, 27 de Marzo de 2008 18:00
> Para: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> Asunto: [squeak-dev] Re: FFI and FreeTypePlus problem?
> 
> Yeah, I had forgotten about the problem. The issue comes from 
> a call to 
> Smalltalk>>recreateSpecialObjectsArray (which is required for 
> the FFI to 
> work correctly) and which accidentally nukes the external semaphore 
> table. The fix is simple: Replace the following line in 
> SystemDictionary>>recreateSpecialObjectsArray
> 
> 	newArray at: 39 put: Array new.
> 
> by
> 	"Preserve external semaphores when recreating splObjs"
> 	newArray at: 39 put: (self specialObjectsArray at: 39).
> 
> Also, saving and restarting the image after loading the FFI is good 
> temporary workaround for this problem.
> 
> Cheers,
>    - Andreas
> 
> Torsten Bergmann wrote:
> > I already created a bug report for this, Andreas 
> > may be able to tell you more:
> > 
> >    http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=6980
> > 
> > As a workaround you can can use FFI-Kernel-ar6.mcz
> > instead of FFI-Kernel-ar-8.mcz.
> > 
> > Bye
> > Torsten
> > 
> > 
> 
>