[Vm-dev] #numTemps/tempCountOf: is not working correctly

[Hernan Wilkinson]

Thank you! now I understand :-)

On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 8:40 PM Levente Uzonyi <leves at caesar.elte.hu> wrote:

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> On Sat, 20 Oct 2018, Hernan Wilkinson wrote:
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> > It returns 1, but that method has 3 temps. The same happens with other
> methods like "(SmallInteger>>#printOn:base:length:padded:) numTemps", that
> return 9 but the method has 8 temps.
>
> That method has one temporary variable which holds the indirection vector
> containing the slots for the three variables the closure closes over.
>
> "Any closed-over variable which does change after being closed over is put
> in a heap-allocated "indirection vector" (a simple array, one element per
> closed-over variable) and the indirection vector is copied into the
> closure. All accesses to the variable are made through the indirection
> vector." -
> http://www.mirandabanda.org/cogblog/2008/07/22/closures-part-ii-the-bytecodes/
>
> Levente
>


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