Hi Andreas,
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andreas Raab" <andreas.raab at gmx.de>
To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list"
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Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 3:34 AM
Subject: Re: Possible problem with FFI in 3.9-7067 ?


> Andrew Tween wrote:
> > I've just tried installing from SqueakMap, but it is delivering the same
install
> > and packages as before.
> > I've cleared my SqueakMap cache, but with the same result.
> > When I browse SqueakMap in a web browser, I don't see any recent updates to
FFI.
> > Could you check that it is indeed updated on SqueakMap?
>
> Right. I noticed that too. It seems like SM is too smart for its own
> good - you cannot update a file on the server, you have to rename it. Ho
> Hum.
>
> After fixing that, I found that my fix still didn't fix it and your
> actually looked better and better the longer I stared at it. What
> convinced me was when I was running through the debugger to see what
> happens when you don't bootstrap - the structure bit musn't be set or
> else both the pointer and the non-pointer type look like structs to the
> FFI (very, very bad).

Yes. I noticed the same by comparing the contents of the
ExternalType.StructTypes class var in 3.8 and 3.9 images.

>
> Adding that fix and pushing an InstallFFI3 script to SqueakMap finally
> solved it. Thanks for your help tracking this down.

I've installed the new version from SqueakMap, and can confirm it is working.
Thanks.

Andy