[Vm-dev] How to access Interpreter code from plugin?

[Mariano Martinez Peck]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de> wrote:

>
> On 10/13/2010 9:52 AM, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com
>> <mailto:siguctua at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>    Hi, Mariano.
>>
>>    I don't understand, why you need to dive into specific primitive(s),
>>    while you can simply place a hook before entering any primitive
>>
>>
>> is there a way to do this in a genera way or I need to do it manually
>> for each primitive?
>>
>
> FWIW, it's questions like these that make people wonder if you've done your
> homework.


Is it so hard to answer in a ploite way??

If you read my first line of the email says "Hi. Sorry if the question is
newbie. I am still reading the blue book, so in case this is explained there
I would just appreciate a link to it. "

is it really hard to understand and simply answer page 620 ?

Anyway, those were not my original questions.

Thanks

Mariano



> The precise question is answered on page 620 of the blue book.
>
> Cheers,
>  - Andreas
>
>
>     and
>>    mark all objects, which passed as parameters
>>    (receiver & args) as 'used', and then call primitive function?
>>
>>
>> The problem is that not all of them are "used" in all primitives. Just
>> as an example, #bytecodeNew:
>>
>> bytecodePrimNew
>>
>>     messageSelector := self specialSelector: 28.
>>     argumentCount := 0.
>>     self normalSend.
>>
>> I don't want to trace the receiver there, but it is really not used
>> there. I will trace it in #normalSend.
>> Or sometimes a primitive fails because one of the arguments is more than
>> 32bits or because it is not smallInteger or whatever...I don't want to
>> mark them as used just for being a parameter. I want to mark them when
>> they are really used by the VM.
>>
>> I want to avoid as much as overhead as possible.
>>
>> Right now I put the tracing in #normalSend, but then I modifed some
>> bytecodes like those for #class or #== since they were not going
>> throught normal send.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Mariano
>>
>
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