Hi Levente,

>> On Thu, 12 Dec 2019, Levente Uzonyi wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Eliot,
>> 
>>> On Thu, 12 Dec 2019, Eliot Miranda wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Chris,
>>>>      On Dec 11, 2019, at 8:03 PM, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>      Is this a fix we should want in the 5.3 release?
>>> I do t think it affects the release.  This only affects builds that use a particular version of gcc on ARM64. As far as we’re aware, it doesn’t affect x86-64 builds.  But if anyone sees the issue in a current build they
>>> should say so asap.
>> 
>> This seems to be the same bug described in this thread: http://forum.world.st/Primitive-40-asFloat-fails-for-me-tp5095689p5095908.html

> On Dec 12, 2019, at 2:45 AM, Levente Uzonyi <leves at caesar.elte.hu> wrote:
> 
> And the point is that the bug causes issues on x86.

Thanks!  Will fix asap and communicate with the board if this implies we need a different release candidate VM. 

>> Levente
>> 
>>> 
>>>>      On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 2:09 PM <commits at source.squeak.org> wrote:
>>>       
>>>      Eliot Miranda uploaded a new version of VMMaker to project VM Maker:
>>>      http://source.squeak.org/VMMaker/VMMaker.oscog-eem.2606.mcz
>>> 
>>>      ==================== Summary ====================
>>> 
>>>      Name: VMMaker.oscog-eem.2606
>>>      Author: eem
>>>      Time: 11 December 2019, 12:08:45.007873 pm
>>>      UUID: be1eac72-340a-4ed5-bfe7-6051597847a4
>>>      Ancestors: VMMaker.oscog-eem.2605
>>> 
>>>      Fix the "funny floats" issue with gcc et al.  Casting the address of an automatic long to an int * is no longer allowed.  Thanks to Pablo Tessone for the analysis and fix.
>>> 
>>>      =============== Diff against VMMaker.oscog-eem.2605 ===============
>>> 
>>>      Item was changed:
>>>        ----- Method: Spur64BitMemoryManager>>fetchLong32:ofFloatObject: (in category 'object access') -----
>>>        fetchLong32: fieldIndex ofFloatObject: oop
>>>              "index by word size, and return a pointer as long as the word size"
>>> 
>>>              | bits |
>>>              (self isImmediateFloat: oop) ifFalse:
>>>                      [^self fetchLong32: fieldIndex ofObject: oop].
>>>              bits := self smallFloatBitsOf: oop.
>>>      +       ^fieldIndex = 0
>>>      +               ifTrue: [bits bitAnd: 16rFFFFFFFF]
>>>      +               ifFalse: [bits >> 32]!
>>>      -       ^self
>>>      -               cCode: [(self cCoerceSimple: (self addressOf: bits) to: #'int *') at: fieldIndex]
>>>      -               inSmalltalk:
>>>      -                       [self flag: #endian.
>>>      -                        fieldIndex = 0
>>>      -                               ifTrue: [bits bitAnd: 16rFFFFFFFF]
>>>      -                               ifFalse: [bits >> 32]]!
>