Hi Marcel,

On Wed, Apr 27, 2022, 10:33 Marcel Taeumel <marcel.taeumel at hpi.de> wrote:

> Ha. I think I found something. See Graphics-mt.514. I am not 100% sure
> that this was the culprit but I will backport it to Squeak 5.3 just in case
>
It'll be a bit difficult to test, but I'll try stressing the image to see
if that does the trick.

I do immediately see something that could become an issue... static
analysis says priorBits is assigned to but then never accessed, so it's
safe to optimize away. There are no function calls involved, just copying a
pointer, so it isn't like there would be side effects. If I compiled it by
hand I'd remove it entirely... which is why you have a comment specifically
saying not to do just that.

I've looked at Context and CompiledMethod hard enough to know the callee
can access it... for fun I wrote a method that rewrites block closure
temporary bindings... is that enough to keep it from being omitted?
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