[Vm-dev] Re: Need a marker primitive

[Eliot Miranda]

Hi Tim,

your proposal is missing below:
Personally I don't get why you want a primitive.  I don't see how the RSqueak VM can use it to handle primitive failure.  I fear infinite regress :). Can you try again to mail the code?  I'm not trying to block you.  I'm just trying to understand, cuz until I do I can't respond meaningfully.

Eliot (phone)

On Apr 26, 2015, at 11:08 PM, timfelgentreff <timfelgentreff at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Sure, we could do that. I wanted to have it in the VMMaker package (so that
> just loading the VMMaker package prepares the image for running with
> RSqueak), so I was looking for a minimal change. Our subclass would simply
> override primitiveFail to do:
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> So I guess all I'm asking is, can we just put primitive 114 (or any number
> that's free for us to implement our custom logic in the VM in) directly into
> InterpreterSimulator without anybody ripping our head off? Are people
> debugging the simulation using gdb and the breakpoint there would annoy
> them?
> 
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