VM 4.4 build niceness (was: Re: [Vm-dev] [squeak-dev] VM 4.4 build nastinesses - part 1 of probably many)

Yoshiki Ohshima Yoshiki.Ohshima at acm.org
Thu Feb 14 18:36:13 UTC 2013


One issue we had was that the BitBlt code in the Scratch image was
using numbered primitives, but the newer VMs don't support them.  If
you edit them in the image to use the named primitives, it *might* do
better.

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 10:22 AM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
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> On 14-02-2013, at 2:46 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
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>> On 2013-02-14, at 04:52, "David T. Lewis" <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
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>>> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 07:17:23PM -0800, tim Rowledge wrote:
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>>>> The odd bit remaining today is what might have changed that is causing Scratch to fail to open up properly; it never gets to open the window and eventually crashes with a low space fail. This is a bit strange since the Scratch image runs ok on the older 4.0 vm and runs on the iMac with a 4.2VM.
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>> I assume you are using the latest Scratch release?
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>> http://info.scratch.mit.edu/GPLv2_Licensed_Scratch_Code
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> Yup, using that one as well as the stripped down 'official' image. Same result.
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> I'll do a full rebuild today to make sure there are no bits of lint lying around but it is odd that ordinary images start up perfectly well.
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> tim
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