not at all :)  The internet means not having to remember trivia... or does
it?  I can never remember...


On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 17 January 2013 21:14, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> I ran a MessageTally and was told that False doesn't understand #-.
> >> This, it turns out, was because MessageTally >> #computeGCStats
> >> assumes that all VM parameters are Number-like. Changing the method to
> >> this:
> >>
> >> computeGCStats
> >>         "Compute the deltas in the GC stats.  Serves for reporting,
> >> hibernating and unhibernating."
> >>         SmalltalkImage current getVMParameters keysAndValuesDo:
> >>                 [ :idx :gcVal |
> >>                 gcVal isNumber ifTrue: [ "This is the new line"
> >>                         gcVal ifNotNil: [gcStats at: idx put: (gcVal -
> >> (gcStats at: idx))]]]
> >>
> >> lets the MessageTally run to completion. Now this might be because I'm
> >> running a Cog r.2672 and a 4.3 image. I don't know.
> >>
> >> My question is this: should SmalltalkImage current getVMParameters
> >> keys be a collection of Numbers? Or should MessageTally defend against
> >> things not being numbers? Or have I just stumbled across a bad
> >> image/VM combination?
> >
> >
> > Both of the last two.  This was fixed in 4.4 a few weeks ago.
> > The VM change was to answer a boolean for parameter 65, this being
> whether
> > the VM supports multiple bytecode sets or not.
>
> My apologies; I should have remembered this :(
>
> Thanks, Eliot.
>
> frank
>
> > --
> > best,
> > Eliot
> >
> >
> >
>
>


-- 
best,
Eliot
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