Unix 3.7 gamma VM

[John M McIntosh]

Ned's Changes...

I'll note the use of signed versus unsigned might require a bit more  
thought. Really want *should* happen is getting an oops address back
is really a squeakOopAddress type. Then when people do math on it it  
needs to be looked at carefully. Perhaps a add/subtract method that  
will do the
right thing? The danger of piecemeal mod leaves you with an image that  
kinda works, but deep down when something says grab the oops address  
and add/subtract
4 under certain conditions means disaster.  mmm really I've thought  
about defining that type then turning warnings on, then following the  
results, but that means of course cross checking all the platform  
dependent code too because they should be getting squeakOopAddress  
versus int.

PS many years ago I put together a change set to alter slang so that if  
you returned nothing from a method, or a typecasted value it would  
generate the C code as returning
the void or data type. That could rid of the thousand warnings about  
routine does not return int but declared as returning int. However as  
Tim discovered we do evil things in the
VM external API and say for example setting the error prim result  
returns int, when in fact it does not return int. Then people have  
coded routines and say return seterror().


On Mar 18, 2005, at 11:39 AM, Ned Konz wrote:

> On Friday 18 March 2005 11:16 am, Ian Piumarta wrote:
>>> What VMMaker version does that correspond to?
>>
>> The one in 3.7-5898-full.
>>
>> 1.  It's a 3.7 VM, so the rule says it has to be built from a 3.7
>> image.  The final 3.7 VM is built from the final 3.7-full image.
>> 2.  Look in configure.ac (or watch the first few lines printed by
>> configure as it runs) and it tells you exactly which image version
>> generated the (bundled) interpreter sources.
>
> Great. I'll apply my changes to it instead.
>
> Thanks,
> --  
> Ned Konz
> http://bike-nomad.com
>
>
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