[squeak-dev] Teleplace Cog VMs are now available

Andreas Raab andreas.raab at gmx.de
Sun Jun 20 21:47:08 UTC 2010


On 6/20/2010 2:42 PM, Rob Rothwell wrote:
> For the binary-challenged, I am sure some kind soul will post compiled
> versions somewhere...!

For Windows, get yours here:

     http://squeakvm.org/win32/experimental/CogSqueak4.1.zip

Cheers,
   - Andreas

> (I ALWAYS struggle with build.bat, missing files, environment variables,
> and the like...)
>
> Take care,
>
> Rob
>
> On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 5:37 PM, John M McIntosh
> <johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com
> <mailto:johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     Wonderful news.
>
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>     On 2010-06-20, at 1:11 PM, Eliot Miranda wrote:
>
>>      The Cogit currently supports only x86 and the floating-point
>>     primitives and parts of the platform support code depend on SSE2.
>>     I hope members of the community will attempt to port it, e.g. to
>>     ARM, PowerPC and x86-64.
>
>     Now before anyone asks, it's very doubtful you will see Cogit on the
>     iOS series of operating systems (iphone/ipad). I have had detailed
>     discussions with the Apple Security team since their goal is to
>     prevent user level code from doing dynamic code generation.
>
>     mmap for example won't return a page of memory that is executable.
>
>     Let's say the probability of getting Apple to change their minds on
>     this is zero.
>
>     However I'll look into the StackInterpreter for the Macintosh 5.x VM
>     and the iOS flavour, mind if anyone wants to do that chore early
>     then they should ping me.
>
>
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