[squeak-dev] Re: primitives
nicolas cellier
ncellier at ifrance.com
Sat Nov 1 15:29:22 UTC 2008
Mark Volkmann a écrit :
> Where can I read about the standard primitives in Squeak? I can find
> lots of resources on writing my own primitives, but I want to know what
> the existing ones do. For example, I'm looking at the "new" method in
> Behavior and I see "<primitive: 70>". Where can I find a description of
> that does? Is there an easy way to find the corresponding C source code?
>
> ---
> Mark Volkmann
>
>
>
I forgot the links, but search for Smalltalk blue book at Stephane
Ducasse site.
If you load VMMaker, you will have the code for most of these primitives
in Smalltalk pseudo-C code (slang). Most of C "source" is in fact
generated from that.
Nicolas
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