2.3 for Unix

Ian Piumarta Ian.Piumarta at inria.fr
Thu Jan 28 12:26:24 UTC 1999


ftp://alix.inria.fr/pub/squeak/unix/2.3 contains the usual stuff for:

	alpha-osf1-v4.0
	i386-linux-2.0.36	(linked against glibc-2.0.7)
	i386-linux-2.1.24	(linked against libc-5.4.38)
	sparc-solaris-2.5.1
	sparc-sunos-4.1.4

with the regular four-file snack-packs in the "distributions" directory.

Major noteworthies:

  * graphics-related bug fixed (can anyone spot what it is?  this bug
    has been there since 1.13 and nobody noticed!)

  * user-defined primitives are gone (definitively! -- use named
    primitives instead)

  * there's an optional low-res 1/50 second clock using ITIMER_REAL and
    SIGALRM, avoiding lots of relatively expensive calls to gettimeofday()

    NOTE: this means that sleep() won't work; if you really
          absolutely cannot avoid calling sleep() from custom-made
          code then change
		#define	USE_ITIMER
	  to
		#undef	USE_ITIMER
	  at sqXWindow.c:93 and recompile the VM

  * the ".image" extension on the image name is added implicitly (you
    have the option of omitting it on the command line)

  * a couple of Makefile pimples squeezed, more or less as suggested by
    Bert Freudenberg and Lex Spoon

Let me know of any problems ASAP.  Enjoy!

Ian





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