Good news, I've managed to make your issue apparently vanish in Pharo3.0 VM. For this, I: - cleaned up unecessary differences with Eliot's VMMaker.oscog branch, - removed unecessary changes ahead of VMMaker.oscog-eem.333 version (those stamped LucFabresse) - carefully applied changes from VMMaker.oscog-eem.333 that were not applied Note that this version was marked as merged, which it was obviously not Please, if you do not fully merge, but just cherry pick some changes, it's better to not merge. - upgraded to (merged) VMMaker.oscog-eem.335 because it fixes a snafu - integrated the issues for which I emitted a pull request
All this work can be found publicly at https://github.com/nicolas-cellier-aka-nice/pharo-vm/compare/fixMergeWithEli...
I cannot tell which missing change exactly was the root cause, and I cannot dissect either, but I saw several + LiteralStart missing... Or it could be related to cogit method/block native code generation... The changes are most probably here https://github.com/nicolas-cellier-aka-nice/pharo-vm/commit/af718618eee516d1...
Bad news, the structures at beginning of src/cm/cogit.c are generated out of order, and I didn't find the cause yet. Once solved, I think my branch should be carefully reviewed and integrated.
2014-04-03 4:13 GMT+02:00 Nicolas Cellier < nicolas.cellier.aka.nice@gmail.com>:
2014-04-02 23:59 GMT+02:00 Stephan Eggermont stephan@stack.nl:
Nicolas wrote:
Hmm, don't waste too much time. All these methods are unchanged in github pharo-vm head revision
(VMMaker-oscog-StefanMarr.313)
The cause must be completely different in latest pharo vms.
Uhm, why? They haven't changed.
Sorry, haven't changed means that there's no diff with the corrected version. IOW, the fixes from Eliot have been integrated for a long time already. You are seeing another symptom, probably another bug impacting the same code. There are many diffs between pharo's and Eliot's branch, but not where you're looking at.
Pharo vms 105 and later no longer crash, but all reliably show the bug.
And 236 is the last Squeak one to show the problem.
I might take a look at Esteban's versions from the same time, 228 and 229
Stephan