[Vm-dev] [squeak-dev] VM 4.4 build nastinesses - part 1 of probably many

[David T. Lewis]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 01:27:04PM -0800, tim Rowledge wrote:
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> On to MiscPrimitivesPlugin - one of the ugly ones that gather strings from random bits of code that are kinda-sorta slang, mangles them, runs them through a set of filters that are not well integrated into the rest of the codegen stuff and spits out what we hope will work. SoundCodecPrims (sigh, what a bad name for a plugin derived from the ADPCMCodecPlugin class) and SoundGenerationPlugin are the two others.
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FYI you will find some unit tests in the VMMaker package that verify
the presence of most (but not all) of these cleverly hidden methods. It's
not perfect but better than no documentation at all.

Dave

> Some changes between 4.0-ish and no have resulted in a test of the prim args for 'isBytes()' - a good idea. But there appears to be no definition for isBytes. I'd expect it to be in the list of Proxy Functions provided by VMPluginCodeGenerator>emitCHeaderForPrimitivesOn: but no see'um.
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> Since a missing function is a pretty serious error to a simple minded linker I'm puzzled how the plugin could be made. Mmmmm, maybe other platforms dynamic linking systems connect it directly to the implementation in sqVirtualMachine.c ? RISC OS is fussier than that, to my frequent cost.
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> tim
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