2 zork ("silent-failure" bug in Carbon VM)
Marcus Denker
denker at iam.unibe.ch
Mon Jul 12 21:16:34 UTC 2004
Am 12.07.2004 um 21:13 schrieb Avi Bryant:
>
> On Jul 11, 2004, at 3:14 AM, stéphane ducasse wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I wanted to test the enh proposed by ned for the debugger. I tried in
>> 5967 with 3.7.3.beta4
>>
>> When I type in a workspace
>> 1+ 3 I get 4
>>
>> when I type
>> 2 zork nothing happens.....
>>
>>
>> With the VM of Ian it works.
>
> I see this too. What's fascinating is that this is the exact same
> "silent failure" behavior I was seeing when trying to test Magma. At
> least this instance of it is easy to reproduce.
>
> John, what's going on?
>
primitiveYield is faulty in some version if VMmaker. The latest version
of the Mac Vm was build using the latest
VMMaker which fixes that bug. I have Squeak 3.7.4Beta1.app here, no
problems with that.
If you have an older vm, either upgrade or comment out the call to the
primitive in #yield.
Marcus
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