Hi David,<div><br></div><div>    one thing you can do is make that large brace expression a set of literal arrays.  e.g.<br><br></div><div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">        </span>installSS := Installer ss.</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">        </span>installSqueak := Installer squeak.</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">        </span>&quot;Use the following array of arrays to reduce total number of literals</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">        </span>is this script, allows log message for each package load.&quot;</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">        </span>{</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>{ installSS .<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>&#39;Speech&#39; .<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                        </span>&#39;SharedPool-Speech&#39; } .</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>{ installSqueak .<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">        </span>&#39;FFI&#39; .<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                                </span>&#39;FFI-Pools&#39; } .</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>{ installSS .<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>&#39;Alien&#39; .<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                        </span>&#39;Alien&#39; } .</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>{ installSqueak .<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">        </span>&#39;VMMaker&#39; .<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                        </span>&#39;Balloon-Engine-Pools&#39; } .</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>{ installSqueak .<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">        </span>&#39;VMMaker&#39; .<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                        </span>vmmBranch } .</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>{ installSqueak .<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">        </span>&#39;VMMaker&#39; .<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                        </span>&#39;Cog&#39; } .</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>{ installSS .<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>&#39;Alien&#39; .<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                        </span>&#39;Alien-VMMaker-Plugins&#39; } .</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>{ installSS .<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>&#39;OSProcessPlugin&#39; .<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">        </span>osppBranch } .</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>{ installSS .<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>&#39;AioPlugin&#39; .<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>&#39;VMConstruction-Plugins-AioPlugin&#39; } .</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>{ installSS .<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>&#39;XDCP&#39; .<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                        </span>&#39;VMConstruction-Plugins-XDisplayControlPlugin&#39; } .</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>{ installSS .<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>&#39;Balloon3D&#39; .<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>&#39;Balloon3D-Constants&#39; } .</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>{ installSS .<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>&#39;Balloon3D&#39; .<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>&#39;Balloon3D-Plugins&#39; } .</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>{ installSS .<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>&#39;FreeTypePlus&#39; .<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">        </span>&#39;FreeType&#39; } .</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>{ installSS .<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>&#39;FreetypePlugin&#39; .<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">        </span>&#39;Freetype-Plugin&#39; } .</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>{ installSS .<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>&#39;dbus&#39; .<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                        </span>&#39;DBus-Plugin&#39; } .</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>{ installSS .<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>&#39;Rome&#39; .<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                        </span>&#39;Rome-Base&#39; } .</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>{ installSS .<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>&#39;Rome&#39; .<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                        </span>&#39;Rome-PluginCanvas&#39; } .</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>{ installSS .<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>&#39;Rome&#39; .<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                        </span>&#39;Rome-Plugin&#39; }</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">        </span>} do: [ :package |</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                        </span>log value: &#39;install &#39;, package third.</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                        </span>(package first project: package second) install: package third.</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>].</div><div><br></div><div>=&gt;</div><div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">        </span>&quot;Use the following array of arrays to reduce total number of literals</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">        </span>is this script, allows log message for each package load.&quot;</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">        </span>#(</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>#( ss<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>&#39;Speech&#39;<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                        </span>&#39;SharedPool-Speech&#39; )</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>#( squeak<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">        </span>&#39;FFI&#39;<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                                </span>&#39;FFI-Pools&#39; )</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>#( ss<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>&#39;Alien&#39;<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                        </span>&#39;Alien&#39; )</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>#( squeak<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">        </span>&#39;VMMaker&#39;<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                        </span>&#39;Balloon-Engine-Pools&#39; )</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>#( squeak<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">        </span>&#39;VMMaker&#39;<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                        </span>vmmBranch )</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>#( squeak<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">        </span>&#39;VMMaker&#39;<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                        </span>&#39;Cog&#39; )</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>#( ss<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>&#39;Alien&#39;<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                        </span>&#39;Alien-VMMaker-Plugins&#39; )</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>#( ss<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>&#39;OSProcessPlugin&#39;<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">        </span>osppBranch )</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>#( ss<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>&#39;AioPlugin&#39;<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>&#39;VMConstruction-Plugins-AioPlugin&#39; )</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>#( ss<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>&#39;XDCP&#39;<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                        </span>&#39;VMConstruction-Plugins-XDisplayControlPlugin&#39; )</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>#( ss<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>&#39;Balloon3D&#39;<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>&#39;Balloon3D-Constants&#39; )</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>#( ss<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>&#39;Balloon3D&#39;<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>&#39;Balloon3D-Plugins&#39; )</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>#( ss<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>&#39;FreeTypePlus&#39;<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">        </span>&#39;FreeType&#39; )</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>#( ss<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>&#39;FreetypePlugin&#39;<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">        </span>&#39;Freetype-Plugin&#39; )</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>#( ss<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>&#39;dbus&#39;<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                        </span>&#39;DBus-Plugin&#39; )</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>#( ss<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>&#39;Rome&#39;<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                        </span>&#39;Rome-Base&#39; )</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>#( ss<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>&#39;Rome&#39;<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                        </span>&#39;Rome-PluginCanvas&#39; )</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>#( ss<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>&#39;Rome&#39;<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                        </span>&#39;Rome-Plugin&#39; )</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">        </span>) do: [ :package |</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                        </span>log value: &#39;install &#39;, package third.</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                        </span>((Installer perform: package first) project: package second) install: package third.</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>].</div></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 4:48 PM, David T. Lewis <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:lewis@mail.msen.com" target="_blank">lewis@mail.msen.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Something changed in trunk a couple of days ago that results in a &#39;More than<br>
256 literals referenced&#39; error in a filein script that previously did not<br>
display this problem (see attached). It does not seem to be anything in the<br>
Compiler package (I reverted back a half dozen versions, no change), so I&#39;m<br>
looking at the CI builds for reference. The problem appears in the image from<br>
SqueakTrunk build #213 and later, and is not  present in the image from<br>
build #212 and earlier.<br>
<br>
I spotted the problem in the CogVM build job, which has been failing for a<br>
couple of days. The failures are due to the above issue, and the script file<br>
that fails on filein is <a href="http://build.squeak.org/job/CogVM/ws/VMCogUnixBuild.st" target="_blank">http://build.squeak.org/job/CogVM/ws/VMCogUnixBuild.st</a><br>
The problem showed up in the CogVM job by coincidence and is not related to<br>
the VM.<br>
<br>
Filing this VMCogUnixBuild.st into an updated trunk image will reproduce<br>
the problem.<br>
<br>
Dave<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>However, I have an instruction set that lifts the 256 literal limit to 65535 ;) </div></div><br>-- <br>best,<div>Eliot</div>
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