Hi Dave, give me detailed instructions on what to load (or preferably an image ready to go) and I'll fix this.

Eliot (phone)

On Jan 12, 2015, at 10:20 AM, "David T. Lewis" <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:

>> On 12.01.2015, at 01:47, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I made a minor update to the SystemTracer that allows it to convert a
>>> 64-bit
>>> image back to 32-bit format, and it worked perfectly with my working
>>> Squeak
>>> image that has been in 64-bit format for several months now.
>> 
>> Nice!
>> 
>>> The resulting 32-bit image must be opened first using an interpreter
>>> VM,
>>> after which it can be run normally with a Cog VM. Tracing should be
>>> done
>>> using an interpreter VM.
>> 
>> Why is that?
> 
> I have not yet figured out why it did not work with Cog. One possibility
> is that the system is running a jitted method at the time of the trace,
> and when the new 64-bit image wakes up in the interpreter VM, it is still
> in the middle of that method and the VM does not know what to do with it.
> 
> That said, I also tried tracing 64 back to 32 and then running the traced
> 32-bit image immediately in Cog. That also did not work, so it may be that
> there is some other issue involved. I am guessing that it might be related
> to the saved start of memory location in the image header, but this is
> just a guess.
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
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