[Vm-dev] Bitmap : #decompress:fromByteArray:at: question.

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Fri Nov 6 16:31:34 UTC 2009


It is primitiveFail in the Trunk image, and must be. The method has  
not been touched since 2001.

- Bert -

On 06.11.2009, at 17:17, arnaud Jean Baptiste wrote:

> thank you, but is not exactly that i want to know
>
> i just want to know if the call primitiveFailed in  
> #decompress:fromByteArray:at: question (In class bitmap) is correct  
> or if  it must be call primitiveFail( in replacement ).
>
> because after generating vm with vmmaker, that always name  
> primitivesFailed() and then i don't find any method  when i browse  
> the source code (the C code)
>
>
>
> On Nov 6, 2009, at 4:31 PM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>
>>
>> On 06.11.2009, at 14:34, arnaud Jean Baptiste wrote:
>>
>>> A understanding question:
>>> In Bitmap
>>> #decompress:fromByteArray:at:
>>>
>>> primitiveFailed shouldn't be : primitiveFail ?
>>> if no, where is define primitiveFailed ( in VM code source ), and  
>>> what the use of it ( personal understanding )
>>
>> Load VMMaker to see the VM source code:
>>
>> primitiveFail
>> 	successFlag := false.
>>
>> It causes the primitive to fail.
>>
>> - Bert -
>>
>>
>




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