[squeak-dev] SystemTracer (Was: The solution of (Was: Creating an image from first principles))

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Fri Aug 8 13:18:58 UTC 2008


On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 10:43:08AM -0700, tim Rowledge wrote:
> 
> We've had this for decades. It's called the SystemTracer. It's way  
> more flexible than a primitive. I (amongst others) have performed Acts  
> Of Deep Magick with the tracer other the years. All it takes is a  
> twisty mind and some patience.

I'm not sure that the SystemTracer is in a very good state of health:

	http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=5240

One act of magic that I'd like to be able to perform is to retrace a
64-bit image, since the original 64-bit image no longer works with the
current VM code base.

Dave




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