<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><div>On 13 Feb 2014, at 05:46, Eliot Miranda <<a href="mailto:eliot.miranda@gmail.com">eliot.miranda@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Hi Stefan!<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Stefan Marr <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:smalltalk@stefan-marr.de" target="_blank">smalltalk@stefan-marr.de</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>Hi:</div><div><br></div><div>Below you see the result of today, the simulator for the StackInterpreter running in a Pharo 3 image.</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Fab! This is great.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">
Over the last years, people have been tinkering with the simulator from time to time, but I have the feeling everyone gave up before the thing was fully functioning, and not even the trivial things have found their way back into the VM code base.<br>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>How can anyone do anything significant with the VM without getting the simulator to work? [ ;-) ] You know about the first attempt at making a 64-bit VM for HP don't you? A nightmare tale :-).</div>
<div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div></div><div>I am aware that Phil was busy with it recently, but I think there was also someone else posting notes here.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Would be great if those people could send me their change sets so that I can try getting everything working again.</div><div><br></div><div>As you can see in the screenshot, the simulator loads up properly, and executes the first 10,000,000 bytecodes.</div>
<div>Which is enough to make it notice that a primitive fails, and to pop up the error dialog.</div><div>However, it is a Pharo 1.2 image. Later images trigger some bug, I haven’t identified yet. They execute code, but don’t manage to bring up the display.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks to having a unified code repository, everything I got so far (minus a few small changes) is here:</div><div> <a href="https://github.com/smarr/pharo-vm/tree/fixes/simulator-bit-rot" target="_blank">https://github.com/smarr/pharo-vm/tree/fixes/simulator-bit-rot</a></div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Hmm. What's the easiest way to map this to a Monticello mcz so I can integrate your changes back into my packages?</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>give me some days… I have in my todo list to create a jenkins job to upload the mcz to <a href="http://source.squeak.org">source.squeak.org</a> (you asked for it more or less in december, but I didn’t had the time until now, sorry). </div><div><br></div><div>Esteban</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; position: static; z-index: auto;">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>More to come soon.<br></div><div>Best regards</div><div>Stefan</div><div><br></div><span><simulator.jpeg></span><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
<div>-- <br>Stefan Marr<br>INRIA Lille - Nord Europe<br><a href="http://stefan-marr.de/research/" target="_blank">http://stefan-marr.de/research/</a><br><br><br></div><br></font></span></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all">
<div><br></div>-- <br>best,<div>Eliot</div>
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