[Vm-dev] SocketPlugin and 64 bit

[Martin Kuball]

Am Wednesday, 9. August 2006 12:34 schrieb David T. Lewis:
> On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 08:34:37PM +0200, Martin Kuball wrote:
> > After having a working vm for linux-amd64 again, I tried to get
> > the network stuff up and running which has never worked for met
> > on amd64. Some debugging in gdb showed that the code for
> > optaining the bytesize of an array is broken in SocketPlugin.
> > Some comparisions with the Fileplugin showed that code like this
> > from SocketPlugin:
> >
> >   sz = interpreterProxy->byteSizeOf(((sqInt)(long)(name) - 4));
> >
> > (where name is the adress of the first indexable field of an
> > ByteArray) does not work while
> >
> >   pathNameSize = interpreterProxy->byteSizeOf(pathName);
> >
> > (pathName beeing an oop from the stack) does work.
> >
> > I changed the generated code and it works now. But of course
> > something has to be done at VMMaker level to realy solve the
> > problem.
>
> Hi Martin,
>
> It sounds like you may be using an outdated version of VMMaker. All
> of the literal references to "4" were removed from the file and
> socket plugins a long time ago.
>
> The VMMaker on SqueakMap is version 3.8b6. In your development
> image, if you evaluate "VMMaker versionString" should see something
> similar.

It says 3.8b6. So it is up to date, isn't it?

By the way, I received only your mail to my private address, not the 
one to the mailing list. Is there something wrong with the new list? 
And it seems to be very quiet there, too? I got no response to my 
other mail some days ago.

Martin