[Vm-dev] egg sucking alert

[Eliot Miranda]

Hi Tim,

On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 3:22 PM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:

>
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> On 10-12-2014, at 3:13 PM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> >     just a simple message about 64-bit code.  Don't use int.  Please use
> long, unsigned long, sqInt or usqInt for variables that are of the
> machine's natural word length
>
> That’s stuff we dealt with a long time ago, surely? The entire idea of
> introducing the sqInt/usqInt etc type defines was to allow the old 64bit
> plain interp vm to build. Yeah, this is what we wrote about it -
> http://squeakvm.org/squeak64/ Wholly Khao - ten years ago.
>
> So the interesting question is how did ‘bad’ stuff get to be there still?
>

There are not too many occurrences.  I'm down to 55 pointer size cast
issues in 7 plugins, at eats on linux.  That's not too bad, and shrinking
as we speak ;-)


> tim
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-- 
best,
Eliot
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