[Vm-dev] Cannot build successfully latest VM

[Nicolas Cellier]

2017-11-26 16:20 GMT+01:00 Nicolas Cellier <
nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com>:

> Hmm, my bad, I fail to find a bug in genPrimitiveStringReplace
> It appears that I messed up with git client... (bissecting on two
> different machines is not a good idea anyway)
> What I find now is this:
> - mac osx 64 squeak.cog.spur cog HEAD segv
> - mac osx 64 squeak.cog.spur generated with VMMaker.oscog-cb.2274 and
> src/plugins/* from head is not OK (mangled)
> - mac osx 64 squeak.cog.spur generated with VMMaker.oscog-cb.2274 and
> src/plugins/* taken from old commit is OK
>   https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/commit/
> 3010e4465405f6ec7a289fc3a3d21eb324816a8f#diff-
> 2ecd46f56f9702ad7a50219dd086a8c5
>
> So that's at least two different problems, one in the plugins, one in
>

The problem in generated plugins is in MiscPrimitivePlugin.c
There are not many changes, so I'll see if I can identify the problem and
fix it in VMMaker.

Then there will be the problem of the 64bit cog spur vm...


2017-11-25 22:20 GMT+01:00 Nicolas Cellier <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice@
> gmail.com>:
>
>> Since I experienced mangled display when generating source with
>> VMMaker.oscog-cb.2274,
>> I suspect that the problem is related to genPrimitiveStringReplace
>> introduced in VMMaker.oscog-cb.2273
>>
>> 2017-11-24 16:45 GMT+01:00 Nicolas Cellier <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmai
>> l.com>:
>>
>>> I can generate a working Win64 squeak cog spur VM at least up to
>>> VMMaker.oscog-cb.2272, no time to finish bissecting right now...
>>>
>>> 2017-11-24 11:37 GMT+01:00 Nicolas Cellier <
>>> nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>> Hmm, I tried to fix declaration of unskew, but it does not seem
>>>> enough...
>>>>
>>>> 2017-11-23 21:06 GMT+01:00 Nicolas Cellier <
>>>> nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com>:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Clement,
>>>>> I let a comment on line 1972 of src/plugins/BitBltPlugin/BitBl
>>>>> tPlugin.c
>>>>> <https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/commit/1dd1a9c0d61ed1c367fb226e59ce0386af3bf5ed#diff-e013b6766a05037812d48960702c0910>
>>>>> on commit
>>>>> https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/commit/1dd
>>>>> 1a9c0d61ed1c367fb226e59ce0386af3bf5ed
>>>>>
>>>>> and another one in https://github.com/OpenSmallta
>>>>> lk/opensmalltalk-vm/commit/4ff34235c24ea2fd690287f96a73834e744ad6c9
>>>>>
>>>>> The problem is that a local variable unskew was generated as unsigned
>>>>> int instead of int in BitBlt, but we then test if unskew < 0 which is
>>>>> obviously going to be eliminated as dead code...
>>>>>
>>>>> I did not try to compile the VM, but I'm pretty sure this is related.
>>>>>
>>>>> 2017-11-23 17:00 GMT+01:00 Clément Bera <bera.clement at gmail.com>:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The latest VM that I build from open-smalltalk VM 2278 or 2280 does
>>>>>> not work (Stack overflow at start-up OR bugged UI with strange color making
>>>>>> any text impossible to read).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have the problem on 2 different computers, Mac OS X and Linux.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am able to build successfully the VM from 2274 but I can do it only
>>>>>> with a previous version of the platform files (else I got a linking error -
>>>>>> scavengeLog: used but not implemented).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am not sure the problem comes from the recent platform files or the
>>>>>> recent changes in the VMMaker packages since they need each other to be
>>>>>> able to be compiled.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What is the right way to work around this problem ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am about to commit on VMMaker package Sista update but I cannot
>>>>>> merge with 2280 since I can't compile a working VM from there, so I'll
>>>>>> commit without merging if I cannot solve this problem
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Clément Béra
>>>>>> https://clementbera.wordpress.com/
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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