[Pharo-project] [Vm-dev] Re: Trying to build alien plugin in linux

[Adrian Lienhard]

I've loaded VMMaker into a new Pharo image and it produces an interpreter that I can successfully compile. After loading VMMaker, ObjectMemory baseHeaderSize is nil as expected: BaseHeaderSize and BytesPerWord are initialized through #initializeWithBytesToWord:, which is called by #generateInterpreterFile. Hence, both variables are nil until VMMaker is run the first time.

Cheers,
Adrian

On Feb 21, 2010, at 17:20 , David T. Lewis wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 01:19:36AM +0100, Levente Uzonyi wrote:
>> On Sat, 20 Feb 2010, John M McIntosh wrote:
>> 
>>> So I think the current VMMaker build process is broken?
>> 
>> In Squeak I get the expected line (using SlangBrowser and VMMaker-ar.158):
>> 		addrSize = interpreterProxy->byteSizeOf((oopForPointer( socketAddress ) - 4));
>> 
>> So I guess it's a Pharo issue.
> 
> It is definitely Pharo-related, but I can't quite spot the source of the
> problem.
> 
> In a Pharo image:
> 
>  ObjectMemory baseHeaderSize ==> nil
>  ObjectMemory bytesPerWord ==> nil
> 
> That is the reason for the incorrect code generation.
> 
> If you evaluate this, the object memory constants will be set up properly:
> 
>  ObjectMemory initializeWithBytesToWord: Smalltalk wordSize
> 
> At that point, I expect that the code generation problem will be probably
> be fixed.
> 
> What I can't figure out is why this is not being initialized properly
> in a Pharo image. I'm fumbling my way through this with a borrowed
> computer (out of town this weekend, forgot to bring my laptop) and
> limited expertise with Pharo, so maybe someone can figure it out from
> the above clues.
> 
> HTH,
> Dave
> 
> 
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