[Vm-dev] Re: [squeak-dev] Teleplace Cog VMs are now available

Rob Rothwell r.j.rothwell at gmail.com
Sun Jun 20 21:42:19 UTC 2010


For the binary-challenged, I am sure some kind soul will post compiled
versions somewhere...!

(I ALWAYS struggle with build.bat, missing files, environment variables, and
the like...)

Take care,

Rob

On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 5:37 PM, John M McIntosh <
johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com> wrote:

>
> Wonderful news.
>
>
> On 2010-06-20, at 1:11 PM, Eliot Miranda wrote:
>
>  The Cogit currently supports only x86 and the floating-point primitives
> and parts of the platform support code depend on SSE2.  I hope members of
> the community will attempt to port it, e.g. to ARM, PowerPC and x86-64.
>
>
> Now before anyone asks, it's very doubtful you will see Cogit on the iOS
> series of operating systems (iphone/ipad). I have had detailed discussions
> with the Apple Security team since their goal is to prevent user level code
> from doing dynamic code generation.
>
> mmap for example won't return a page of memory that is executable.
>
> Let's say the probability of getting Apple to change their minds on this is
> zero.
>
> However I'll look into the StackInterpreter for the Macintosh 5.x VM and
> the iOS flavour, mind if anyone wants to do that chore early then they
> should ping me.
>
>
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