On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, Enrico Spinielli wrote:

> Hi all,
> in order to investigate where WeakFinalizationList and
> WeakFinalizerItem where used in
> latest Trunk I issued 'method source with it' on the relevant string
> but got a dialog with
> 'Error: RemoteString past end of file' as in attached dump.
>
> This is reproducible using Squeak4.2-10160-alpha as from Squeak Trunk ftp [1]
> and also updating it to latest Trunk; the VM I used is
>   Squeak 4.2.5beta1U (Squeak VM 4.2.5b1)
>
> Is this a bug in the VM?

No, your sources file seems to be shorter than it should be. It's size 
should be 26002240 bytes. Print this to see the size:
(SourceFiles at: 1) size.


Levente

> Hope it helps
> Bye
> Enrico
>
> [1] http://ftp.squeak.org/trunk/
> -- 
> Enrico Spinielli
> "Do Androids dream of electric sheep?"˙˙ Philip K. Dick
> "Hear and forget; see and remember;do and understand."˙˙Mitchel Resnick
>