Tim Rowledge wrote:

> Marcus Denker <marcus at ira.uka.de> is widely believed to have written:
> 
> 
>>Smalltalk/X uses a "code pointer". This contains the adress of some runtime
>>genated code or a pointer to some code compiled with gcc (for Primitives or
>>statically compiled methods with the smalltalk-to-c compiler).
>>
> Mmm, is it just the one pointer? What happens with a primitive _and_
> translated Smalltalk backup code? Or is that not allowed?

Don't know if I understand the context completely... ST/X doesn't have 
primitives. It just has inline C code. Want to see how integers added in 
the browser? You just browse to that method and there the 
C/Smalltalk/assembler is! Want to look at how Object>>basicNew works? Go 
for it. What's more (and not even Squeak can do this one). Want to 
change the way basicNew work (say, add an extra byte to every object 
header and printf the address of each new object). Make the change and 
hit accept button. Realtime, right there, it happens.

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