[Vm-dev] Re: Cog VMMaker.oscog-eem.114/r2485

Juan Vuletich juan at jvuletich.org
Thu Aug 11 20:42:55 UTC 2011


Hi Eliot,

Both these give "You cannot use this version of the application Cog.app 
with this version of Mac OS X." on 10.5.8. It looks like Apple wants to 
force everybody to upgrade... :(

Cheers,
Juan Vuletich

Eliot Miranda wrote:
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> Hi All,
>
>     and now http://www.mirandabanda.org/files/Cog/VM/VM.r2486 includes 
> Igor's rule 41 code in the BitBltPlugin, and includes a real 
> multi-threaded linux VM.  The one in r2485 is only single-threaded due 
> to a regression in a build script.
>
> On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Eliot Miranda 
> <eliot.miranda at gmail.com <mailto:eliot.miranda at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     Hi All,
>
>         please find new VMs in
>     http://www.mirandabanda.org/files/Cog/VM/VM.r2485/.  These fix a
>     couple of long-standing bugs.  One is a rare crash in GC on
>     copying a compiled method, caused by the VM not making sure that a
>     copy of a method that has been compiled to machine code is an
>     independent copy.  The other is a potential bug in GC with become
>     where a become causes some machine code methods to gain references
>     to young objects but the VM forgets to include these methods in
>     the young referrers (those machine code methods that refer to
>     young objects).
>     -- 
>     best,
>     Eliot
>
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> -- 
> best,
> Eliot
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