[squeak-dev] [Vm-dev] Squeak5.3 linux ARMv6 segfaults on startup

tim Rowledge tim at rowledge.org
Sat Mar 21 00:07:49 UTC 2020



> On 2020-03-20, at 6:16 AM, Bruce O'Neel <bruce.oneel at pckswarms.ch> wrote:
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> I specialize in ridiculous.  Good news, I guess, is that I dug up a monitor, and, walked it downstairs with a keyboard and mouse and attached it.  The effect with the BitstreamVeraSans and ComicSans fonts are the same.  Maybe it likes serfed fonts?

I'm completely baffled by this. I don't get this effect with any ARM vm that I have that actually runs, with any image I have.

> 
> So that means that it is not some funky X11 over the wire problem with the Mac and Windows X11 servers problem.  That's good.

Guess so, though it just makes life weirder.

> 
> I have no idea then why.  Are these fonts part of the image?  Is it some funky binary format that for some reason Coq is mis-reading?

Yes, the font glyphs are in-image. We've been using these ones for goodness knows how many years.

> 
> I built a stack VM and I get the same result with a Squeak 5.3 image.

There*shouldn't* be any difference between the stack & cog vms.

You could try building a VM with the fastbitblt turned off I suppose - 
a quick hack is to find the BITBLT_FLAGS=   -DENABLE_FAST_BLT and related lines in the Makefile in you squeak.cog.spur/build directory. I haven't actually built an ARM vm without that in years so I don't know it it even still works.


tim
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