[squeak-dev] Numbered primitives in images

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Fri Jan 15 17:16:45 UTC 2010


On 15.01.2010, at 16:58, K. K. Subramaniam wrote:
> 
> On Friday 15 January 2010 04:27:49 pm Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>> I tried running Scratch image with the current VM and found that it
>>> bombed  with cryptic "a primitive failed" message. Not that I expected to
>>> work smoothly but I was surprised about the root cause - many numbered
>>> primitives in primitiveTable (unix/src/vm/interp.c) were replaced with
>>> primitiveFail instead of being redirected to their respective named
>>> primitive. In my case it was primitive 207 (primNetNameResolverStatus).
>> 
>> Hmm, the 3.10 VM used to work fine with Scratch - that must be very recent?
>> Which Scratch image did you try?
> Scratch 1.4 (Linux) of 30-Nov-2009 on 3.11-3 VM.
> Break into Scratch and do "Socket initializeNetwork".

So it does not occur in normal operation?

- Bert -





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