[Vm-dev] Re: About Freetype plugin and BYTES_PER_WORD

[Esteban Lorenzano]

but BytesPerWorld is the same (it generates a macro). Why is so different to BYTES_PER_WORD?

Esteban

pd: yep, I'm back... Hi to all :)

El 01/09/2011, a las 11:32a.m., David T. Lewis escribió:

> 
> On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 04:00:41PM +0200, Igor Stasenko wrote:
>> 
>> I think using
>> 	^self
>> 		cCode: 'BYTES_PER_WORD'
>> 		inSmalltalk: [self subclassResponsibility "InterpreterSimulator"]
>> 
>> instead of
>> 
>> 
>> 	^BytesPerWord
>> 
>> is a mistake.
> 
> It's not a mistake. See the trunk VMMaker, this is part of the
> fundamental mechanism by which common sources can be generated for
> 32/64 bit target platforms.
> 
>> 
>> Because i just look at uses of BytesPerWord pool var in sources,
>> and there are 482 references to it.
>> And in generated code it produces just 'BytesPerWord' for it, but not
>> 'BYTES_PER_WORD'
> 
> The oscog branch does not contain the support for generating common
> sources for 32/64 bit platforms. Possibly some minimal support
> could be added to cover the BytesPerWord issue.
> 
> I am away until Monday and I can't offer any better suggestion
> right now, but I'll look at it when I return.
> 
> Dave
> 
>