[squeak-dev] [Vm-dev] Squeak5.3 linux ARMv6 segfaults on startup
Eliot Miranda
eliot.miranda at gmail.com
Mon Apr 27 01:27:07 UTC 2020
> On Apr 26, 2020, at 1:50 PM, Nicolas Cellier <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> and https://source.squeak.org/VMMaker/VMMaker.oscog-nice.2732.diff
Thanks!!
>
>> Le dim. 26 avr. 2020 à 22:48, Nicolas Cellier <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com> a écrit :
>> Hi Eliot,
>> already fixed by https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/commit/3fa41faef52a157954d706aa5305e756f0f23228
>>
>>> Le dim. 26 avr. 2020 à 22:44, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> a écrit :
>>> Hi Tim,
>>>
>>>> On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 2:50 PM Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi Bruce,
>>>>> On Mar 22, 2020, at 8:31 AM, Bruce O'Neel <bruce.oneel at pckswarms.ch> wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Good news, playing with
>>>>>
>>>>> --enable-fast-bitblt
>>>>>
>>>>> and
>>>>>
>>>>> --disable-fast-bitblt
>>>>>
>>>>> does work in that it builds a working VM.
>>>>>
>>>>> Good news/bad news, it does not change the font problem. So that's not the problem.
>>>>
>>>> Great news. We now know it is an X11 problem and can stop worrying about the fast BitBLT code. Thanks.
>>>
>>> Looks like the problem, or at least a version of the problem, is nothing to do with X11. If I open an About Squeak System Reporter in the simulator (64-bits x64) I see the fixed pitch font corruption we saw on X11 on ARM. So it looks tile the issue is actually in BitBlt itself.
>>>
>>> <SysRepFixedPitch.png>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> cheers
>>>>>
>>>>> bruce
>>>>>
>>>>> 21 March 2020 01:07 tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> > On 2020-03-20, at 6:16 AM, Bruce O'Neel wrote:
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> > I specialize in ridiculous. Good news, I guess, is that I dug up a monitor, and, walked it downstairs with a keyboard and mouse and attached it. The effect with the BitstreamVeraSans and ComicSans fonts are the same. Maybe it likes serfed fonts?
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm completely baffled by this. I don't get this effect with any ARM vm that I have that actually runs, with any image I have.
>>>>>
>>>>> >
>>>>> > So that means that it is not some funky X11 over the wire problem with the Mac and Windows X11 servers problem. That's good.
>>>>>
>>>>> Guess so, though it just makes life weirder.
>>>>>
>>>>> >
>>>>> > I have no idea then why. Are these fonts part of the image? Is it some funky binary format that for some reason Coq is mis-reading?
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, the font glyphs are in-image. We've been using these ones for goodness knows how many years.
>>>>>
>>>>> >
>>>>> > I built a stack VM and I get the same result with a Squeak 5.3 image.
>>>>>
>>>>> There*shouldn't* be any difference between the stack & cog vms.
>>>>>
>>>>> You could try building a VM with the fastbitblt turned off I suppose -
>>>>> a quick hack is to find the BITBLT_FLAGS= -DENABLE_FAST_BLT and related lines in the Makefile in you squeak.cog.spur/build directory. I haven't actually built an ARM vm without that in years so I don't know it it even still works.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> tim
>>>>> --
>>>>> tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
>>>>> It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> _,,,^..^,,,_
>>> best, Eliot
>>>
>
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