On 18.03.2012, at 18:13, Chris Muller wrote:

> It is on my home machine running a recent Cog VM on Ubuntu Linux
> (10.04 I think).
> 
> By platform-support code, does that refer to the VM plugins or
> something put out by Ubuntu?
> 
> Thanks..

The VM.

- Bert -




> 
> On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>> On 18.03.2012, at 17:10, Chris Muller wrote:
>> 
>>> Does a 32-bit VM mean that no individual primitives can have an
>>> argument or return value greater than 32 bits?
>> 
>> No. It just means that any OOP is 32 bits wide. The file size primitive returns a LargeInteger instance, but its OOP will be a 32 bit pointer.
>> 
>>>  File-size is something
>>> that, in 2012 with HD video recording devices, can very easily exceed
>>> 32-bits so it would seem to be overkill for ALL objects to have to be
>>> larger than 32 bits (as in a 64-bit VM) just for this one primitive..
>> 
>> 
>> As Andreas wrote, it works fine on Windows in a 32 bit VM. The problem must be in your platform's support code.
>> 
>> - Bert -
>> 
>> 
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