[squeak-dev] Multi-core VMs (was: Suspending process fix)

Philippe Marschall philippe.marschall at gmail.com
Thu Apr 30 10:57:20 UTC 2009


2009/4/30 Nicolas Cellier <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com>:
> Anyway, no need for native threads to show how broken it can be...

There is a pretty easy way to hard crash (segfaul/access violation)
most (Squeak, VW, probably not GemStone) Smalltalk VMs:
- create a class with an instance variable
- make a block that access this instance variable
- remove the instance variable
- evaluate the block
-> BOOM!

Cheers
Philippe



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