I had the attached file from Ian with the exchange with him and Brain  
Brown

> On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Brian Brown wrote:
>
>> The exception is an older image from the ComSwiki bundle from the
>> Squeak Wiki. I was using as recently as 3.6 beta 3, which I compiled,
>> but under FreeBSD 4.8. When I try to run that now, I get a  
>> Segmentation
>> Fault and a core file.
>>
>> I'm not sure, but the ComSwiki distro might be a 3.2 image, although
>> that shouldn't matter, should it?
>
> It shouldn't, but...  The problem appears to be an off-by-1 error in
> testing for Ephemeron support in the garbage collector.  The problem  
> only
> manifests itself in images without Ephemeron support filed-in.  The
> attached changeset fixes the error in the VM.  (As soon as Andreas
> confirms the fix I will apply it in the distributed sources and  
> release
> a set of 3.2g-3 archives.)
>
> In the meantime either
>
>  - file the image-side Ephemeron support as posted by Andreas into  
> your
>    affected image(s); or
>
>  - file the attached CS into your VMMaker image, regenerate the core  
> VM,
>    recompile; or
>
>  - find the line in src/vm/interp.c that says
>
> 	if ((lengthOf(foo->specialObjectsOop)) >= ClassEphemeron) {
>
>    and change it manually to
>
> 	if ((lengthOf(foo->specialObjectsOop)) > ClassEphemeron) {
>
>    then recompile.




On 23-Apr-09, at 7:43 PM, Miguel Enrique Cobá Martínez wrote:

> I am trying to get the Ephemerons implementations from Andreas Raab,  
> but I can't find it.
>
> In the pages:
>
> http://map.squeak.org/package/fe2a35f5-3f97-431e-8596-58e810aa3c72
> http://map.squeak.org/package/fe2a35f5-3f97-431e-8596-58e810aa3c72/autoversion/1
>
> I found this link:
>
> http://isgwww.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~raab/squeak/packages/Ephemerons/Ephemerons.cs
>
> but is broken.
>
> Where can I find the code?
>
> Thanks,
> Miguel Cobá
>

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