[Pharo-project] 64 bit images (was Re: [squeak-dev] The Trunk:
Collections-dtl.268.mcz)
Stéphane Ducasse
stephane.ducasse at inria.fr
Mon Jan 4 12:35:13 UTC 2010
Jannik
did you check the changeset in the mantis bug report?
Stef
On Jan 4, 2010, at 10:53 AM, Laval Jannik wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I made a new version of the system-tracer (in attachment).
> It works fine with the latest pharo version.
>
> For wordSize, we decide to create a instance variable in SmalltalkImage, which is initialized at startup.
> The method initialPC is:
>
> ---
> initialPC
> "Answer the program counter for the receiver's first bytecode."
>
> ^ (self numLiterals + 1) * SmalltalkImage current wordSize + 1
> ---
>
> The fix will be integrated in Pharo soon.
> It is also in attachment.
>
> <addWordSizeInSystemDictionary.1.cs><System-Tracing-forPharo.cs>
>
> Cheers
>
> On Jan 3, 2010, at 06:46 , John M McIntosh wrote:
>
>> Ok, well I was hoping that Laval Jannik would review the changes/solution in http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7430
>> then update his original System-Tracing.2forPharo3.cs Then test to confirm we can build a 64bit image from the current Pharo image
>>
>>
>> On 2010-01-02, at 6:46 PM, David T. Lewis wrote:
>>
>>> John, one additional note.
>>>
>>> The SystemTracer changesets currently in circulation have an obsolete
>>> implementation of SystemDictionary>>wordSize.The original 64-bit
>>> Squeak used vmParameterAt: 27 for the VM to answer its word size,
>>> but this was later changed to vmParameter at: 40. This is the reason
>>> that the original "dist3" 64-bit image does not work on current VMs.
>>>
>>> You will want to revert #wordSize back to a current version
>>> so that it uses vmParameter at: 40.
>>>
>>> This issue will go away when we implement the cached #wordSize fixes
>>> discussed separately (http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7430), but
>>> I wanted to mention it because I spotted the obsolete method in the
>>> System-Tracing2forPharo.cs change set.
>>>
>>
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