[Vm-dev] Crash on start-up.

[Igor Stasenko]

2009/3/23 Michael van der Gulik <mikevdg at gmail.com>:
>
> On 3/23/09, Michael van der Gulik <mikevdg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> When I next have time (Tuesday evening?) I'll submit a patch for this:
>>
>> - rename primSetInputSemaphore: to primSetInputSemaphoreIndex:.
>> - Add checks in the VM: must be a SmallInteger, must be a valid index in
>> the
>> external objects table, must point to a Semaphore.
>> - Add error handling code in the method itself.
>
> I tried with some success, but now my compiled VM just starts up with
> a black box in the top left, the rest of the screen is white and about
> 80% CPU is consumed. This is on Linux after accidently closing the
> VMMaker window and reopening it.
>
> Is this a common occurance that is easy to fix?

this is beyond my experience. I tried to build VM on linux only once,
and don't remember any serious problems with it.

>
> My attempt at fixing the input semaphore problem is attached to
> http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7320, if anybody has interest. I
> can't test it because of the above problem.
>
> The original Interpreter>>primitiveInputSemaphore has problems. It
> does not pop off the stack if the C code fails. "TheInputSemaphore" is
> nil, and gets translated to "null" in interp.c.
>

when primitive fails, it should keep the original stack state
unchanged, because it then used to enter a method, where primitive
located.

> Gulik.
>
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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.