[Vm-dev] debugging the garbage collector

[Noah Evans]

My goal is to have general squeak support, I started with Spoon but
I'd like it to work across VMs. As I understand it the svn tree is
canonical, which makes it a good place to start.

Noah


On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 4:34 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 02:52:45PM +0100, Noah Evans wrote:
>>
>> I've taken bert's advice and gotten the canonical svn tree. For the
>> moment I've gone away from VMMaker sources and started with the svn
>> tree's cointerp.c. Once I have that working (most of it already
>> compiles, I just need to decide what to do with alloca--it's
>> unimplemented in Plan9 posix emulation) I'll go back and work with
>> Spoon. I'm just trying to minimize the number of variables for the
>> moment. The svn tree has been really great in this regard.
>>
>> Can anyone point me to a contributing page for how to submit patches?
>> Or just to the mailing list proper?
>>
>> Noah
>
> The mailing list for sure. And depending on which branch you end up
> working with, maybe some other procedures. But definitely post to this
> list :)
>
> I still worry that Craig seems to be saying that he is working with sources
> from trunk, and you seem to be saying that you are working with sources
> from the Cog branch. Assuming your goal is to get a VM for running Spoon,
> you should make sure that you're on the same page with Craig, otherwise
> you're going to be in for a lot of extra work.
>
> Dave
>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 2:47 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 01:14:17PM +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On 2013-02-15, at 11:27, Noah Evans <noah.evans at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > Craig, which version of Cog are you using? I'm using the tip of the
>> >> > gitorious tree.
>> >>
>> >> Eliot's canonical sources are in subversion:
>> >>
>> >> http://squeakvm.org/svn/squeak/branches/Cog/
>> >>
>> >
>> > Oh dear, I suspect we may have some confusion here. Craig says:
>> >
>> >
>> >>      The current release of Spoon is 3 beta 3 (23 October 2012),
>> >> available at:
>> >>
>> >>      http://netjam.org/spoon/releases/current
>> >>
>> >>      It includes a Squeak 4.2 object memory (4 February 2011) with
>> >> VMMaker dtl.237 (23 May 2011) installed, and the Spoon VM changes
>> >> applied to that, and with remote browsing support installed. It runs on
>> >> the VM it generates, which is the only one supplied in the release (Mac
>> >> OS, Linux and win32).
>> >
>> > Noah, what platform sources did you start with? The VM that Craig
>> > describes would have been compiled with platform sources from the
>> > trunk VM (not branches/Cog). Those sources are at:
>> >
>> >   http://squeakvm.org/svn/squeak/trunk
>> >
>> > You would need to use a version of those sources from the early 2011
>> > time frame. But I would suggest very stongly that you get an exact
>> > copy of sources from Craig so that you are starting from exactly the
>> > same code base that he is using (or maybe that's what you meant in your
>> > question to Craig the about gitorious tree).
>> >
>> > Mixing generated source code from VMMaker trunk (e.g. VMMaker-dtl.237)
>> > with platform sources from branches/Cog will definitely not work.
>> > And mixing generated sources (from VMMaker) with platform sources
>> > (from Subversion) that are not from the same general time frame will
>> > probably not work.
>> >
>> > Dave
>> >