[squeak-dev] Squeak4.3alpha-11481 build

Casey Ransberger casey.obrien.r at gmail.com
Mon Jun 13 19:48:55 UTC 2011


Below.

On Jun 13, 2011, at 12:39 PM, "Edgar J. De Cleene" <edgardec2005 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, the VM is old.
> Still puzzled why different VM (Mac and Windows) give us different results.
> Test don't should be VM independent ?
> 
> Edgar

Depends on the what's being tested. Methods in the system ultimately rely upon VM primitives, plugins, or byte code operations, and bugs in the VM can surface this way through SUnit tests. This is my current understanding, at least.

FWIW, I think it's a Good Thing that we can catch VM bugs with image-level tests, because instrumenting test machinery in the VM itself is probably a lot more work.


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