I updated to the 3.8.6beta6 vm for the Mac and everything works well 
now :-)


thanks John and Tim.

Brian


On Apr 29, 2005, at 1:51 PM, Tim Rowledge wrote:

> John M McIntosh <johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com> wrote:
>
>> So which Mac VM is this?
>> Image: Squeak3.8gamma [latest update: #6662]
>>
>> I see it fails in Array>>elementsForwardIdentityTo: which invokes
>> become and we have altered become lately in the mac carbon vm to fix
>> some crashes.
> Users need to be running on a 3.7b6 or newer, or a 3.8b3 or newer VM 
> to avoid
> this. There are still plausible cases where become will fail - the way
> become'ing is done means that if the same object is referred to twice 
> in the
> source or target arrays of the become then the headers can be 
> corrupted. The
> image code would need changing to avoid this.
>
> tim
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