[Vm-dev] Method executing but not sent to the receiver

[Eliot Miranda]

Hi Levente,  Hi David,

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu> wrote:

> On Wed, 20 Apr 2011, Andreas Raab wrote:
>
>
>> On 4/20/2011 14:29, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:
>>
>>> CompiledMethod >> valueWithReceiver: aReceiver arguments: anArray
>>>    "Execute compiledMethod against the receiver and args in argArray. The
>>> receiver is the CompiledMethod"
>>>
>>> <primitive: 666>
>>>    self primitiveFailed
>>>
>>>
>>> Where the primitive is send directly, and not a message to the receiver.
>>>
>>> Is something like this available or I would need to create a new
>>> primitive?
>>>
>>
>> Which by the way, is the primitive that should exist, and
>> Object>>withArgs:executeMethod: should be nuked ASAP. There is no reason to
>> pollute the Object namespace any more than absolutely necessary.
>>
>
> The solution already exists in Cog: primitive 188 can accept a third
> argument - the receiver, but it doesn't work if the CompiledMethod is quick.
> In this case the VM crashes. It does work with "normal" methods.
>
> I prepared an image with a workspace in it demonstrating the bug:
> http://leves.web.elte.hu/squeak/primitive188bug.zip
>
> If primitive 188 works reliably, then this feature can be added to the
> interpreter VM too.
>

Levente, this is fixed in VMMaker.oscog-eem.75 &
http://www.mirandabanda.org/files/Cog/VM/VM.r2394/.  David, the VMMaker
package contains a putative fix for Interpreter.  Feel free to integrate it
into the interpreter.

best,
Eliot


>
> Levente
>
>
>> Cheers,
>>  - Andreas
>>
>>
>>
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