[Vm-dev] newDelta >0 failed in sqUnixMemory -- Was Re: [Pharo-project] Incompatibility between Pharo and Seasidehosting

John M McIntosh johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com
Mon Feb 23 00:33:20 UTC 2009


Old news.

http://www.nabble.com/An-issue-with-Slang,-the-interpreter---the-VM,-and-a-period-in-biasToGrow.-td8515636.html

Could be other important VMMaker changes between 2007 and today...


On 22-Feb-09, at 4:47 AM, Bruce O'Neel wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I downloaded Ian's image/changes bundle named unix-3.10-4.vmm.tar.gz  
> from http://www.squeakvm.org/unix/
> and looked into it a bit.
>
> In ObjectMemory biasToGrow it looks like the problem is
>
> biasToGrow
> 	| growSize |
> 	growSize :=  growHeadroom*3/2 - (self sizeOfFree: freeBlock)
> 	self growObjectMemory: growSize
>
> there are no '.'s after the lines.  Shouldn't it look like:
>
> biasToGrow
>        | growSize |
>        growSize :=  growHeadroom*3/2 - (self sizeOfFree: freeBlock).
>        self growObjectMemory: growSize.
>
> that?
>
> It looks like the slang interpreter/translater must be coughing a  
> bit on what is basically
> slight invalid syntax, right?
>
> I guess that next up I have to figure out how to actually run vm  
> maker :-)
>
> cheers
>
> bruce

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