[Vm-dev] Set and get values from the VM AND the image

[Mariano Martinez Peck]

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> just add some flag to interpreter state (ivar), like 'enableTrace'
> and a primitive which sets it to true or false.
>
>
What an idiot I am...thanks Igor. Sorry for the newbie/stupid questions. I
am still new in this VM world and sometimes I don't know where I am (in OO
or C world) and how to communicate from one to the other one.

That worked perfectly.

Thanks again.

Mariano



> On 10 May 2010 17:33, Mariano Martinez Peck <marianopeck at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi folks. I need to intercept all messages. For such purpose, I modified
> Interpreter >> normalSend like this:
> >
> >
> > normalSend
> >     "Send a message, starting lookup with the receiver's class."
> >     "Assume: messageSelector and argumentCount have been set, and that
> >     the receiver and arguments have been pushed onto the stack,"
> >     "Note: This method is inlined into the interpreter dispatch loop."
> >     | rcvr |
> >     self inline: true.
> >     self sharedCodeNamed: 'normalSend' inCase: 131.
> >     rcvr := self internalStackValue: argumentCount.
> >     (self isIntegerObject:  rcvr)
> >         ifFalse: [
> >             self doSomething: rcvr.
> >             ].
> >     lkupClass := self fetchClassOf: rcvr.
> >     receiverClass := lkupClass.
> >     self commonSend.
> >
> >
> >
> > But now, from the IMAGE side I would like to enable or disable such
> intercept. It would be great if from the Image side I can set a value to a
> boolean and read such value and ask, from the VM side.
> >
> > Do you know if I can do this?  Should I use specialObjectArray ?  If
> true, can you give me a hint of how to do it ?
> >
> > Thank you very much.
> >
> > Mariano
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
>
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