Am 18.03.2012 17:32, schrieb Bert Freudenberg:
> On 18.03.2012, at 17:10, Chris Muller wrote:
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>> 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.
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>>  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..
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> As Andreas wrote, it works fine on Windows in a 32 bit VM. The problem must be in your platform's support code.
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> - Bert -
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The problem is in the linux support code.
I've reported it in Mantis quite some time ago: http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7522 but I don't have an easy
solution because it seemed to affect several places (including platform-independent code IIRC) so I hoped that soem VM
maintainer would have a look at it.

Cheers,
Hans-Martin