[squeak-dev] The Trunk: Kernel-nice.746.mcz

Nicolas Cellier nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com
Sun Mar 10 20:01:59 UTC 2013


2013/3/10 David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com>:
> On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 06:53:11PM +0000, commits at source.squeak.org wrote:
>> Nicolas Cellier uploaded a new version of Kernel to project The Trunk:
>> http://source.squeak.org/trunk/Kernel-nice.746.mcz
>>
>> ==================== Summary ====================
>>
>> Name: Kernel-nice.746
>> Author: nice
>> Time: 10 March 2013, 7:52:48.738 pm
>> UUID: 0f9d411b-68a9-49eb-b37a-1bc4fb8fa36d
>> Ancestors: Kernel-bf.744
>>
>> Fix ClassBuilder which previously failed to flush the cache of old CompiledMethod when the class changes of format.
>> This failure to invoke primitive 116 can lead to COG VM crash (a cogit jitted method is not unlinked).
>> This does not affect old interpreter which clear the caches thru primitive 119.
>> It is essential that the newClass points to identity-preserved CompiledMethods of oldClass methodDictionary before recompiling so that primitive 116 be correctly invoked, particularly we must not clear methodDictionary with a MethodDictionary new..
>>
>
> Really good job of debugging to find this problem and fix it :)
>
> Dave
>

:(
Il ne faut pas vendre la peau de l'ours avant de l'avoir tué.
My last attempt to update a Squeak 4.4 image just failed while loading
Compiler-nice.256...

Nicolas


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