[squeak-dev] Squeak 4.6 -- 2nd release candidate

karl ramberg karlramberg at gmail.com
Tue Jul 7 19:12:56 UTC 2015


This error kind of sound like the error that we had in Spur and Cog a while
back. I'm not sure it is related.


Karl

On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 8:31 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:

> I am away and cannot follow up on this for a while.
>
> My guess would be that there is something wrong in the compiler, and that
> it needs to be fixed (but I cannot check now to find out). I don't know if
> this affects SqueakJS or other VMs.
>
> Dave
>
> > On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 7:33 AM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com>
> > wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jul 06, 2015 at 09:46:09PM -0500, Chris Muller wrote:
> >>> Probably the Compiler recompileAll..?
> >>
> >> Confirmed.
> >>
> >> Compiler recompileAll results in an image that crashes the interpreter
> >> VM.
> >> A fully updated trunk image works fine, but recompiling it breaks the
> >> image.
> >
> > Interpreter VM will not be able to run Spur images going forward.  So
> > this is the last possible release to support the Interpreter VM anyway
> > is that right?
> >
> > Maybe it is time to abandon Interpreter VMj?  Or release 4.6 without
> > the recompileAll and release 5.0 with it?
> >
> > Please let me know how you would like to proceed.
> >
>
>
>
>
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