[squeak-dev] Cog+NativeBoost @ Mac OS

Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda at gmail.com
Fri Dec 10 20:20:23 UTC 2010


On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

I tripped over this when porting VisualWorks to Mac OS X.  To my undying
embarrasment I contacted Apple because I suspected I had found a compiler
bug.  But no, it was my ignorance :)



> --
> Best regards,
> Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
>
>
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