[Vm-dev] egg sucking alert

[Eliot Miranda]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 3:51 PM, John McIntosh <
johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com> wrote:

>
> Gulity guilty.. but 9 years, 6 months ago...
>
> But I think you will find we migrated to the sqmacunixfileinterface.c
> about 8 years 10 months ago and abandon the older carbon file FSSPec and
> hfs+ file names. The macunixfile interface is a copy of the unix file
> interface but has the logic needed to deal with macintosh alias files, not
> to be confused with unix alias file nodes...
>
> So not sure you need this plugin, as I'd think the unix async one would be
> the target?
>

I'm talking about
platforms/Cross/plugins/AsynchFilePlugin/AsynchFilePlugin.h  (amongst other
offenders).


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