On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, Enrico Spinielli wrote:

> Hi all,
> in latest Trunk (update: 10352) I run all tests and found that
> ReleaseTest>>testUndeclared
> is failing due to references to
>   WeakFinalizationList
>   WeakFinalizerItem
> in
>   WeakFinalizersTest>>testNewFinalizationSupported
>
> It seems to me that weak finalization was provided by Igor as a Mantis bug fix
> (see last email in thread [1] and related mantis bug [2]) but not in Trunk.
> Maybe remnants of it got in by accident or it has not been completely
> integrated in Trunk: it is difficult for me to dig further...

IIRC the packages for these classes are in the Inbox, though Igor said he 
will rewrite parts of the image-side code. But to use this new 
finalization mechanism, the VM has to support it. Currently the necessary 
changes are not in the VM trunk. AFAIK Eliot is working on a new garbage 
collector, which may make these changes obsolete.


Levente

>
> Hope it helps
> Bye
> Enrico
>
> [1] http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2010-May/150986.html
> [2] http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7473
> -- 
> Enrico Spinielli
> "Do Androids dream of electric sheep?"˙˙ Philip K. Dick
> "Hear and forget; see and remember;do and understand."˙˙Mitchel Resnick
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