[squeak-dev] Re: Some notes about SqueakMap dead in trunk images...

Levente Uzonyi leves at elte.hu
Mon Mar 15 23:16:48 UTC 2010


On Mon, 15 Mar 2010, Andreas Raab wrote:

> On 3/15/2010 4:07 PM, Levente Uzonyi wrote:
>> It's probably not a vm issue, because it works in 3.10.2-7179 (if it
>> doesn't work for you, just delete the sm folder and try again) with the
>> latest vm.
>
> It's definitely a VM bug. The VM knows if it's running a pre-closure or 
> closure image. Due to a mistaken consistency check, image segment loading 
> will fail if you try to load an image segment from a pre-closure image into a 
> closure image. That's why it works with old images but not with 
> closure-converted ones.

Hah, nice find.


Levente

>
> Cheers,
>  - Andreas
>
>



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