[Scratch] [Vm-dev] Help/advice tracking down a squeak-vm regression

[David T. Lewis]

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 04:17:56PM +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote:
>  
> 2012/5/11 Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>:
> > I just checked. Most, if not all of the problems, come from Scratch's use of numbered primitives. They were deprecated in favor of named primitives.
> >
> > IMHO it would be reasonably simple to re-instate these primitives in the VM. Right now they are simply mapped to primitiveFail. This would get us back the ability to run many old images, unmodified.
> >
> > The fix for Scratch would be to change all the deprecated primitive calls in the image to the new ones. This is straightforward, though a bit tedious.
> 
> I found this thread about -I think- what you're talking about, just in case:
> 
> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/vm-dev/2010-January/003666.html

Miry,

I think that's it exactly, thanks!

Dave