<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Igor Stasenko <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:siguctua@gmail.com">siguctua@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
On 10 December 2010 20:31, John M McIntosh<br>
<div class="im"><<a href="mailto:johnmci@smalltalkconsulting.com">johnmci@smalltalkconsulting.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Oh, yes in fact 5? years back I changed the FFI call for this because the<br>
> Sophie team make a QuickTime FFI call and it was curtains.... Until I too<br>
> read that "innocent little note".<br>
> In fact it's even worst than you can imagine since some bright software<br>
> engineer said. Oh if the stack is 16 bytes aligned and well we've only 12<br>
> bytes here, well hah I'll be clever and use that 4 bytes of padding for<br>
> working storage... Unfortunately that just happens to be some Squeak VM<br>
> local var, but no matter I'm sure the VM will crash *later*....<br>
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</div>Thanks, Eliot and John for paying attention to my troubles. :)<br>
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Yeah.. it is never too late to learn. Good that i found it relatively<br>
quickly, because i was totally unaware of this innocent little thing.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I tripped over this when porting VisualWorks to Mac OS X. To my undying embarrasment I contacted Apple because I suspected I had found a compiler bug. But no, it was my ignorance :)</div>
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</font><div><div></div><div class="h5">Best regards,<br>
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.<br>
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