Oh, that's cool. So you have a script that builds an interpreter, and folks
(once the bug's fixed) can read it, run it, learn from it, tweak it, etc?

I like.

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 5:24 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 01:00:20AM +0100, Nicolas Cellier wrote:
> > I must say I was pretty surprised to see such a long method compiled at
> all...
> > Sorry, I know it's not very helpful, but couldn't the script be split
> > with chunk format?
>
> Yes of course. I am not trying to fix the script. The script is only of
> interest
> because it seems to have caught a problem associated with recent image
> changes
> within the last few days.
>
> Of course I should turn it into a unit test.
>
> Dave
>
> p.s. The reason that the script is written in this manner (way too long) is
> that I wanted it be something that would be readable and executable when
> imported into a workspace, but that would also run from start to finish to
> build a VM when filed in as a script. There is a similar script for the
> interpreter VM, although that one is not triggering the bug at the moment.
>
> >
> > Nicolas
> >
> > 2013/3/14 David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com>:
> > > Something changed in trunk a couple of days ago that results in a
> 'More than
> > > 256 literals referenced' error in a filein script that previously did
> not
> > > display this problem (see attached). It does not seem to be anything
> in the
> > > Compiler package (I reverted back a half dozen versions, no change),
> so I'm
> > > looking at the CI builds for reference. The problem appears in the
> image from
> > > SqueakTrunk build #213 and later, and is not  present in the image from
> > > build #212 and earlier.
> > >
> > > I spotted the problem in the CogVM build job, which has been failing
> for a
> > > couple of days. The failures are due to the above issue, and the
> script file
> > > that fails on filein is
> http://build.squeak.org/job/CogVM/ws/VMCogUnixBuild.st
> > > The problem showed up in the CogVM job by coincidence and is not
> related to
> > > the VM.
> > >
> > > Filing this VMCogUnixBuild.st into an updated trunk image will
> reproduce
> > > the problem.
> > >
> > > Dave
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
>


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Casey Ransberger
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