[Vm-dev] Re: VM patches for oop comparison and usqInt declarations

[John M McIntosh]

I stuck some compares in the pointer accessors and got


			for (w = firstWord; w <= lastWord; w += BytesPerWord) {
				longAtput(target, longAt(w));
				target += BytesPerWord;
			}


in incCompMove

w is 0x86401004
firstWord is 0x7ffffff4
lastWord is 0x7ffffffc


mmm Oh wait w being an integer of value -2042621948  is well always  
less than lastWord.

Perhaps other suspects?

	for (i = firstField; i <= lastField; i += BytesPerWord) {
	for (i = BaseHeaderSize; i <= lastField; i += BytesPerWord) {
	for (i = ((lastPointerOf(oop)) + BytesPerWord); i <= (sz -  
BaseHeaderSize); i += BytesPerWord) {


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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