Hi Andreas, I was able to finally make my 3dot10 nicely with the patch,

	thanks,

Sebastian 


 

> -----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 19:12
> Para: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> Asunto: [squeak-dev] Re: FFI and FreeTypePlus problem?
> 
> Sebastian Sastre wrote:
> > 	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).
> 
> There are many variations in which the problem will not show (for 
> example, when it comes from the cache instead from the net, 
> or if code 
> is invoked in the middle which resets the network, or if the previous 
> lookup went to the same host, or if there is DNS failure in 
> the middle 
> etc). The way to make it happen reliably is like this:
> 
>    NetNameResolver addressForName: 'www.squeak.org'.
>    Smalltalk recreateSpecialObjectsArray.
>    NetNameResolver addressForName: 'ftp.squeak.org'.
> 
> Without the fix to recreateSpecialObjectsArray, this should fail, no 
> matter where.
> 
> Cheers,
>    - Andreas
> 
> 
> > 
> > 	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
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
>