On 10 December 2010 20:31, John M McIntosh
<johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com> wrote:
> Oh, yes in fact 5? years back I changed the FFI call for this because the
> Sophie team make a QuickTime FFI call and it was curtains....  Until I too
> read that "innocent little note".
> In fact it's even worst than you can imagine since some bright software
> engineer said. Oh if the stack is 16 bytes aligned and well we've only 12
> bytes here, well hah I'll be clever and use that 4 bytes of padding for
> working storage...  Unfortunately that just happens to be some Squeak VM
> local var, but no matter I'm sure the VM will crash *later*....
>

Thanks, Eliot and John for paying attention to my troubles. :)

Yeah.. it is never too late to learn. Good that i found it relatively
quickly, because i was totally unaware of this innocent little thing.

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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.