[squeak-dev] Loading FFI crashes my VM

Frank Shearar frank.shearar at gmail.com
Thu Jun 13 20:05:21 UTC 2013


Sigh. This was meant to go to the list as well.

On 13 June 2013 21:04, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13 June 2013 19:04, Tony Garnock-Jones <tonyg at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>> On 2013-06-13 4:15 AM, Frank Shearar wrote:
>>> I'll need to check by hand but I don't see errors for FFI in the latest ExternalPackages build (which uses the above VM + latest updated image).
>>
>> It seems to have been something to do with the image at update 12568 in
>> particular. Updating the image from there to the latest (12782) lets FFI
>> and Crypto-Nacl load OK, without crashing the VM. Sorry for the noise,
>> and thanks for the pointer to check out the latest stuff!
>
> Mm, this is tickling a memory. I do vaguely recall something about
> there being a time where you had to be careful which image & version
> you used. Maybe Eliot remembers?
>
>> (Perhaps http://ftp.squeak.org/trunk/Squeak4.5-12568.zip could be
>> removed/replaced/updated?)
>
> That's a good idea. http://ftp.squeak.org/trunk/Squeak4.5-12641.zip is now up.
>
> (I managed to break the update number logic: the Official (tm) latest
> update number is 12641, and of course your local number is well past
> that. Someone else - Chris Cunnington? - reported a past-the-tip
> update number as well. Levente Uzonyi doesn't see an easy way out of
> the hole I dug.)
>
> frank
>
>> Regards,
>>   Tony


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