[squeak-dev] Squeak 4.6 -- 2nd release candidate
David T. Lewis
lewis at mail.msen.com
Tue Jul 7 18:31:42 UTC 2015
I am away and cannot follow up on this for a while.
My guess would be that there is something wrong in the compiler, and that
it needs to be fixed (but I cannot check now to find out). I don't know if
this affects SqueakJS or other VMs.
Dave
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 7:33 AM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com>
> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 06, 2015 at 09:46:09PM -0500, Chris Muller wrote:
>>> Probably the Compiler recompileAll..?
>>
>> Confirmed.
>>
>> Compiler recompileAll results in an image that crashes the interpreter
>> VM.
>> A fully updated trunk image works fine, but recompiling it breaks the
>> image.
>
> Interpreter VM will not be able to run Spur images going forward. So
> this is the last possible release to support the Interpreter VM anyway
> is that right?
>
> Maybe it is time to abandon Interpreter VMj? Or release 4.6 without
> the recompileAll and release 5.0 with it?
>
> Please let me know how you would like to proceed.
>
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