[Vm-dev] SqueakCogSpur32x86.xcworkspace

Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda at gmail.com
Sun Sep 27 07:39:19 UTC 2015


Hi John,

> On Sep 26, 2015, at 9:05 PM, johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com wrote:
> 
> I merged most of their changes already. I have to make an inventory of the changes then consolidate 

Ok, but the other part of my question is important.  What does the Pharo code do to avoid leaking memory, or is it leaking memory now?

> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Sep 26, 2015, at 8:24 PM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi John,
>> 
>>     what do the current Pharo vm's Cocoa sources do?  Can we not merge with that code base?
>> 
>> _,,,^..^,,,_ (phone)
>> 
>>> On Sep 26, 2015, at 12:37 PM, John McIntosh <johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I have provided a SqueakCogSpur32x86.xcworkspace in 
>>> Cog/build.macos32x86/squeak.cog.spur/ 
>>> 
>>> This builds a Cog Spur 32bit i386 VM, using the Cocoa UI. Ya.
>>> 
>>> However the Objective-C 'legacy' runtime does not support ARC (automatic reference counting), but the UI is all ARC aware. This means the app leaks memory like crazy, so don't even think of using it for anything but testing. 
>>> 
>>> I have to now look into what is required to backport the pre-arc source changes to the cog branch for i386 usage. 
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> ===========================================================================
>>> John M. McIntosh. Corporate Smalltalk Consulting Ltd https://www.linkedin.com/in/smalltalk
>>> ===========================================================================
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