Hi Eliot--

> > I loaded Alien-eem.25 into Squeak 5.0.15110 on Mac OS 10.11.15A279b
> > from the Monticello HTTP repository at [1]. I ran AlienSunit in the
> > Test Runner, and it crashed Squeak. Before I get into posting error
> > logs, can anyone confirm that AlienSunit runs successfully on their
> > machine, on any host platform, or that I shouldn't expect it to run
> > successfully? Are there other Monticello packages I should be
> > loading, and if so, in what order?
>
> I get 15 passes and one failure, that being testLongLong.  But that's
> in my VMMaker image, which has some extras in it.  AFAIA tough Alien
> should just work.  I'll look at the testLongLong failure soon cuz I'm
> starting on the x64 JIT and that requires the above to work to access
> the processor alien.

     Would you please try with the current Squeak 5 release?

     Also, is it feasible to make FFI calls to a 64-bit C library?


     thanks again!

-C

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