[Vm-dev] [OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm] Primitives merged back from the PharoVM branch should be reviewed (#192)

[Fabio Niephaus]

> Nice catch. The cause of the problem is that the primitives were merged
> into the Cog branch from PharoVM. These came with
> VMMaker.oscog-EstebanLorenzano.1317.
> All primitives merged from that branch should be revisited, because
> while many of those (like these) are from the original VMMaker branch,
> they are flagged with <option: #Pharo>.
> 
> Levente
> 
> On Wed, 10 Jan 2018, Ricardo Moran wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > For a while I've been using an old version of Squeak so recently I decided to update and I downloaded Squeak 5.1. 
> First of all, let me tell you I really like what you have done. I haven't been following the list too much lately so I'm only scratching the surface but this new Squeak looks and feels *really* nice. And most of my > preferences are already set by default so I don't have
> > to mess around with the settings too much. Really nice work, thank you.
> >
> One thing I noticed while I was playing with the SerialPort is that it doesn't work if I refer to the ports by name (I'm using Windows 10, by the way). This used to work in the old VM so I looked in the source code and it > seems the primitives that allow to use port
> > names are only compiled for Pharo:
> > https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/blob/9d39149b257141914497d9c7454e3a2ce6193ec8/src/plugins/SerialPlugin/SerialPlugin.c#L41
> >
> > So I downloaded the PharoVM and indeed the SerialPort works fine with port names. Is there a reason for this or is it just a bug?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Richo
> >
> >

Mailing list discussion: http://forum.world.st/SerialPort-question-regarding-port-names-td5062751.html

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