Some plugins, like FFI (and i expect some others) extending the
special objects array with couple more entries.

What i thinking about, is that how we could make this scheme more flexible.
The problem with current implementation is that if i made a plugin,
which needs some additional special object(s),
it should reserve a couple more slots in specialObjectsArray.

And it creates a bottleneck, since you need to tell all other
developers, that you reserving these slots for own plugin.
Maybe a better scheme would be to tell VM to associate a name with given object,
so then plugin could fetch that object by symbolic name.
This is a bit slower than fetching by index, but more flexible, since
we no longer dependent on rigid & static size of specialobjects array
and
its slots meanings.

2009/12/17 Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu>:
> On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Edgar J. De Cleene wrote:
>
>> Folks:
>>
>> I try to synchronize my MinimalMorphic with trunk.
>> At some point have the following walkback
>>
>> Error: Please check size of special objects array!
>> 17 December 2009 7:36:31 am
>>
>> VM: Mac OS - a SmalltalkImage
>> Image: MinimalMorphic [latest update: #7261]
>>
>> SecurityManager state:
>> Restricted: false
>> FileAccess: true
>> SocketAccess: true
>> Working Dir /Users/edgar/SqueakDevelop/Squeak3.11
>> Trusted Dir /foobar/tooBar/forSqueak/bogus
>> Untrusted Dir /Users/edgar/Library/Preferences/Squeak/Internet/My Squeak
>>
>> PseudoContext class(Object)>>error:
>>   Receiver: PseudoContext
>>   Arguments and temporary variables:
>>       aString:     'Please check size of special objects array!'
>>
>> When I see in my uop to date Squeak3.11-8496-alpha.image is
>>
>> Smalltalk specialObjectsArray size = 50
>>
>> But PseudoContext> initialize  says
>>
>> Smalltalk specialObjectsArray size = 41
>>       ifFalse: [self error: 'Please check size of special objects array!']
>>
>> So something is wrooong..  Or?
>
> The code is obsolete, the size of the array is 50 since 2004 or so.
>
>
> Levente
>
>>
>> I appreciate any clues.
>>
>> Edgar
>>
>
>



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