[Vm-dev] SystemTracer64 progress

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Tue Jan 12 12:29:23 UTC 2010


On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 08:31:11AM +0100, Laval Jannik wrote:
> 
> On Jan 12, 2010, at 04:55 , David T. Lewis wrote:
> 
> > Over the weekend I made some progress in getting SystemTracer updated
> > to do 64-bit image tracing. Previously SystemTracer64 did not work on
> > little-endian machines (Mantis 5240). This is corrected now, and the
> > code is on SqueakSource in project "SystemTracing".
> > 
> > I can now trace a Squeak 3.10.2 image to 64-bit format on my Linux
> > AMD box (little endian), producing a runnable 64-bit image. For
> > an up to date Squeak trunk image, I can trace a 64 image that
> > loads and runs (display opens and things start working), but that
> > has problems with resuming its background processes (low space
> > watcher etc). Possibly it's related to the block closure changes,
> > although I believe there was an earlier report of a Pharo image
> > with block closures being successfully traced to 64 bit format.
> > 
>  
> Hi David,
> 
> I cannot write my changes.
> So you can have them in attachment.
> 
> In these .cs, there is a merge with your version .15.
> And it works with Pharo.

Jannik,

Thank you for sending this. I will compare and merge as soon as I
have some more free time.

Also, your PharoCore64-1.1-11152-UNSTABLE image works fine on my
Linux box.

Dave



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