<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 2012-04-16, at 8:14 AM, Jeremy Kajikawa wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">I am somewhat dogmatically minded about technical details, so I am<br>unlikely to wade through buckets of documentation about Smalltalk as a<br>language and how to use it if it is not answering the question about<br>what I am looking up.<br></span></blockquote></div><br><div>I'm confused. You want to implement a Smalltalk interpreter, but you're not interested in the details of the language? Perhaps you should tell us what your overall goal is. That way we can provide more useful information.</div><div><br></div><div>As for documentation of the bytecode set, you may find the Blue Book useful. It's the canonical description of how Smalltalk works, including the interpreter. Squeak is a descendant of this implementation. The section on the interpreter is here:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.mirandabanda.org/bluebook/bluebook_chapter28.html#StackBytecodes28">http://www.mirandabanda.org/bluebook/bluebook_chapter28.html#StackBytecodes28</a></div><div><br></div><div>Hope this helps,</div><div><br></div><div>Colin</div><div><br></div><div>PS. Since this has nothing to do with Ubuntu, I've changed the subject to something more appropriate</div></body></html>