On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 12:38:14PM +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> 
> Am 30.08.2008 um 12:26 schrieb stephane ducasse:
> 
> >Hi all
> >
> >I discussed at ESUG with Eliot and he told us that he sent a while ago
> >his changes to get a much nicer FFI implementation to the VM  
> >maintainers.
> 
> 
> I do not remember seeing this on the vm-dev list:
> 
> http://www.google.com/search?q=ffi+eliot+site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Flists.squeakfoundation.org%2Fpipermail%2Fvm-dev%2F
> 
> Whom did he sent it to exactly?

On a related topic, I have gotten FFI working on machines with 64 bit
pointer size. This is an issue for 64 bit Linux, and would affect OS X
if the VM was compiled for 64 bits. I don't know when or if it would be
an issue for Windows.

The changes are quite extensive (platform code, plugin, and interpreter
must all be all touched)  so some coordination will be required here.
I'm not sure how this should be handled, but it's certainly a good topic
for the vm-dev list.

My earlier mention of this is here:
http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/vm-dev/2008-April/001900.html

Dave