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

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Tue Jul 7 21:01:53 UTC 2015


Thanks Karl,

I don't recall the discussion on this, was it something that we covered in
the vm-dev list?

Dave


> 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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