[squeak-dev] Backward image and VM compatibility

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Wed Dec 21 22:56:31 UTC 2016


On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 05:15:29PM -0500, Bob Arning wrote:
> Is there a specific oldest image which current VMs are expected to run?
> 

A current interpreter VM should run a Squeak 3.2 image, although with some
problems. It should be able to run images from the Squeak 3.6 and 3.8 era
without problems. And it should run anything else up to but not including Spur.

Dave

> 
> On 12/21/16 11:38 AM, David T. Lewis wrote:
> >Following up on this, the backward compatibility for interpreter VM 
> >supporting
> >old images was broken in VMMaker-dtl.387 of 8 November 2016, due to my 
> >attempt
> >to align the primitive table closer to Cog/Spur:
> 



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