[Vm-dev] 64bit FFI?

[Eliot Miranda]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>wrote:

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> On 12.02.2009, at 18:48, Eliot Miranda wrote:
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>> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>
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>> On 12.02.2009, at 18:22, Eliot Miranda wrote:
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>> I should expand on this, and could be completely wrong.
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>> Since you're late to the game I'll point out
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>> http://squeakvm.org/squeak64/faq.html
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>> I see that Bert, but Andreas is asking something different.  He is asking
>> if the existing 32-bit system can be run on a 64-bit platform, not that one
>> can run a 64-bit VM on a 64-bit platform.  In Qwaq we have 32-bit server
>> images and Andreas is interested in using these images largely unchanged to
>> run as 64-bit processes.
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> ... which is what the 64 bit VM does, as Andreas is well-aware. One of the
> remaining problems is 64 bit FFI, and a few more plugins. Fortunately David
> has been working on those for quite some time.


IIUC the 64-bit VM does _not_ run 32-bit images.  So I don't understand how
the 64-bit VM is releant.  Can yu lead me by the nose a little further?

TIA


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