[Vm-dev] VM Maker: VMMaker.oscog-rsf.1951.mcz

[Ryan Macnak]

Hi Eliot,

I can confirm VMs built after this revert fully pass the Newspeak bootstrap
and test suite.

Ryan

On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 3:14 PM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Roni, Hi Ryan,
>
>
>     in the below you, Roni, added extBFirstZero.  As far as I can tell
> this breaks the newspeak (and Cadence (*)) VM.  I don't quite see the
> purpose of extBFirstZero and urgently need to restore the Newspeak and
> Cadence VMs.  So forgive me but I'm going to revert that part of the
> changes.  It has caused me to misdiagnose the problems with extPushInteger
> and genExtUnconditionalJump.  These I'll revert too.  If this breaks
> Lowcode then let's collaborate on developing a fix for Lowcode that doesn't
> break Newspeak and Cadence VMs.  But it's a priority of mine (they pay for
> my work) to keep these VMs working.
>
> (*) The Cadence VM is a Newspeak VM that does not enforce access control.
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 9:53 AM, <commits at source.squeak.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> Ronie Salgado Faila uploaded a new version of VMMaker to project VM Maker:
>> http://source.squeak.org/VMMaker/VMMaker.oscog-rsf.1951.mcz
>>
>> ==================== Summary ====================
>>
>> Name: VMMaker.oscog-rsf.1951
>> Author: rsf
>> Time: 8 September 2016, 6:52:41.871669 pm
>> UUID: c714858a-7f63-47bd-a9ec-4bc1350eead2
>> Ancestors: VMMaker.oscog-rsf.1915, VMMaker.oscog-eem.1950
>>
>> Integration of Lowcode.
>>
>> Lowcode is an extended bytecode set that is encoded using the inline
>> primitive facility from the SistaV1 bytecode set.
>>
>> Building a VM with Lowcode requires the following VMMaker options:
>>
>>         SistaVM true
>>         LowcodeVM true
>>         MULTIPLEBYTECODESETS true
>>         bytecodeTableInitializer initializeBytecodeTableForSque
>> akV3PlusClosuresSistaV1Hybrid
>>
>> IWST Slides:
>>
>> http://www.slideshare.net/esug/lowcode-extending-smalltalk-
>> with-c-types-to-improve-performance
>>
>> In addition to these huge changes in the VM, Lowcode has some
>> dependencies in some C headers with the inline FFI callout glue, and
>> additional sqMemoryAccess.h macros. I will send a patch for inclusion into
>> the OpenSmalltalk VM C sources.
>>
>> =============== Diff against VMMaker.oscog-eem.1950 ===============
>>
>> ...
>
>
>
> _,,,^..^,,,_
> best, Eliot
>
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