[squeak-dev] primitives

John M McIntosh johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com
Sat Nov 1 18:13:12 UTC 2008


On Nov 1, 2008, at 8:17 AM, Mark Volkmann wrote:

> 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

As mentioned the VM is built from Slang code, but it requires some  
platform specific code to interact with the
operating system, there is now some documentation at  http://isqueak.org/PlatformVMAP

Of course if you don't have an operating system http://sourceforge.net/projects/squeaknos/



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