[Vm-dev] Re: VM patches for oop comparison and usqInt declarations
John M McIntosh
johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com
Fri Jun 8 21:54:25 UTC 2007
Further testing at the 2gb boundary shows a variety of different
errors from run to run. I'd say the incremental GC logic
trash memory somehow as it goes over the 2gb boundary.
On May 27, 2007, at 6:22 AM, David T. Lewis wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 06:59:49AM -0400, David T. Lewis wrote:
>> The attached zip contains six change sets and an update for
>> sqMemoryAccess.h.
>> The changes are intended to resolve problems with oop variable
>> declarations
>> and comparison operations that may occur on platforms that assign
>> object
>> memory to high virtual memory address values.
>
> Can anyone confirm whether these changes are producing the intended
> results, i.e. a system that used to crash with >2GB oop issues, and
> no longer crashes after applying the changes? I don't have any Squeak
> platform that exhibits the problem, so so I can't confirm whether or
> not the problem is actually resolved.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave
>
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