[BUG] Smalltalk vmVersion isNil and prevents me to mail outthisbugreport automatically... ;-)

Bert Freudenberg bert at isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de
Sun Apr 8 13:21:58 UTC 2001


On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Doug Way wrote:

> 
> Tim Rowledge wrote: > > > I assume the Mac is supposed to return the
> image/update# of the image which was used to build the VM (although I
> guess that's currently broken).  For other platforms, this doesn't
> make sense, since they don't use the Slang sources in the image to
> build VM's (right?). > > Of course they do - where else would the code
> come from?
> 
> Sorry, got confused there.  (my lack of VM building experience is
> showing...)  I guess I was thinking of stuff like sqXWindow.c, which
> is not built from Slang, right?

Correct. The platform-dependend support code is coded in C, not Slang -
even for Mac (see class InterpreterSupportCode).

-- Bert





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