[squeak-dev] Looking for a volunteer to help with DataStream on Spur

Tobias Pape Das.Linux at gmx.de
Thu Jun 25 05:18:36 UTC 2015


ok, I'll try

On 25.06.2015, at 04:38, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Tobias,
> 
>    I'll try and upload an image and vm tomorrow am my time.  Right now the  only 64-bit Spur vm I have is a Linux stack vm. 
> 
> Eliot (phone)
> 
> On Jun 24, 2015, at 10:36 AM, Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On 03.02.2015, at 19:17, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi All,
>>> 
>>>  Spur adds two new immediate classes, Character and SmallFloat64.  It also adds 61-bit SmallIntegers in 64-bits.  DataStream/ReferenceStream/SmartRefStream are all affected by this.  e.g.
>>> 
>>>      ReferenceStream testWith: $a
>>> 
>>> fails on 32-bit and 64-bit Spur.
>>> 
>>>  ReferenceStream testWith: SmallInteger maxVal
>>> 
>>> fails (silently, to be fixed soon) on 64-bit Spur.
>> 
>> Do you have a 64bit spur vm and image i can play around with?
>> 
>> best 
>>   -tobias
>> 
>>> Is anyone kind enough and motivated enough to give this code some love and at least make it work for
>>> 
>>> 32-bit Spur => 32-bit Spur
>>> 64-bit Spur => 64-bit Spur
>>> 
>>> but also hopefully for
>>> 32-bit Spur <=> 64-bit Spur
>>> 32-bit V3 => 32-bit Spur
>>> 32-bit V3 => 64-bit Spur
>>> 
>>> ?
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 8:59 AM, Stéphane Rollandin <lecteur at zogotounga.net> wrote:
>>> Yes.  Can you send me a pair of doits for me to test this, one I can run in v3 and one I can run in Spur?
>>> 
>>> I'm trying to set-up a faulty expression, but it is not so easy.
>>> 
>>> Meanwhile I stumbled upon a similar bug:
>>> 
>>>      $a asReferenceStream reset fileInObjectAndCode
>>> 
>>> The above succeeds in V3 and raises an error in Spur. Same reason: basicNew being sent to Character.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> But I'n curious, why codePoint: rather than
>>> 
>>> createFrom: aSmartRefStream size: varsOnDisk version: instVarList
>>> 
>>>  ^ self value: instVarList first
>>> 
>>> ?
>>> 
>>> Well I got used to codePoint: ... Also value: has a lot more implementors and senders and does not mean much by itself. Actually I never thought about this.




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