Sync Pharo and Squeak VMMaker Re: [squeak-dev] immutability

Nicolas Cellier nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com
Thu Mar 18 18:53:13 UTC 2010


2010/3/18 Nicolas Cellier <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com>:
> See also http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7474
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Oops no, seems fixed :)

> 2010/3/18 Jean Baptiste Arnaud <jbaptiste.arnaud at gmail.com>:
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>> the change that must be performed
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>> For RC image (Pharo) the main difference :
>> In the class SmartSyntaxPluginCodeGenerator
>>        On Pharo : the selector #ccgValBlock: ==> avoid to fix block or execute this method silently.
>>        On Squeak:  need to fix the temporary variable  block
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>> In the class MiscPrimitivePlugin)
>> the selector be careful with the name of a method #translatedPrimitives
>>        On Pharo : (ByteString findSubstringViaPrimitive:in:startingAt:matchTable:)
>>        On Squeak : (ByteString findSubstring:in:startingAt:matchTable:)
>>
>> Then VMMaker use a method #replaceLastOccurance
>> this method is deprecated in Pharo et must use :
>>        On Pharo : String #replaceLastOccurrence:
>>        On Squeak too :)
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>>> The underscore assignment but we can avoid this problem just by setting a preference for the moment.
>> On Mar 18, 2010, at 2:13 PM, Igor Stasenko wrote:
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>>> On 18 March 2010 14:26, Jean Baptiste Arnaud <jbaptiste.arnaud at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I studied the immutability bit, from the newspeak VM.
>>>>
>>>> And i think that can be very easy to implement, i would like to perform the change in VMMaker.
>>>> But, i work on pharo, and the pharo image have a small difference about VMMaker.
>>>> Then if that  small difference can be fixed and we have the same version of VMMaker for the two environments all my work can be usable on squeak.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Can you tell us more specific, what changes to VMMaker you made to
>>> make it work on Pharo?
>>> I'm not a fan of forking VMMaker, because one of achivements we made
>>> last year is establishing a
>>> single VMMaker repository and formed a vm-dev team who maintaining it.
>>> So if its possible to keep things in sync, lets find a way to do that.
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mar 18, 2010, at 11:02 AM, Igor Stasenko wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>> And that would require a VM change.
>>>>
>>>> Regard
>>>> Jean Baptiste Arnaud
>>>> jbaptiste.arnaud at gmail.com
>>>>
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>>> --
>>> Best regards,
>>> Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
>>>
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>> Regard
>> Jean Baptiste Arnaud
>> jbaptiste.arnaud at gmail.com
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