On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 12:56 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 09:03:53PM -0500, David T. Lewis wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 05:10:24PM +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> > >
> > > Some early images fill the context stack before advancing its stack
> > > pointer. I have a flag to allow that, it's pretty certainly used in
> > > primitive 61.
> >
> > Brilliant, thanks Bert.
> >
> > I see several places where we check "fmt = 3 and: [self isContextHeader:
> hdr]",
> > including in #stObject:at:put: which is probably the immediate cause of
> the
> > failure that I was seeing. And #stSizeOf: does this:
> >
> >       (fmt = 3 and: [self isContextHeader: hdr])
> >               ifTrue: [stSize := self fetchStackPointerOf: array]
> >               ifFalse: [stSize := totalLength - fixedFields].
> >
> > I'll try playing with it this weekend and see if I can get it working
> for the
> > older images.
> >
> > But I have to ask ... how in the world did you figure this out?
>

Well, debugging the startup code is actually quite comfortable using my VM
debugger (https://lively-web.org/users/bert/squeak.html). It shows the call
stack, current frame, and byte code, and lets you set a break point, and
single-step through the code. Someone should make a similar UI for the
Squeak VM Simulator :)

So what I did is pause the VM when the startup didn't finish, look up the
call stack to see where things went wrong, set a break point for that
method, run again, and then single-step to where it goes wrong.

At least I think that's what I did, because right now I can't get it to
malfunction even when I disable the flag ... where exactly did it break for
you?


> > :-)
> >
>
> Indeed, disabling the stack pointer check in #stObject:at:put: results in
> a VM that now works with the old Squeak1.13u.image


Yay! :)

- Bert -
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