[Vm-dev] About the image

[David T. Lewis]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 06:24:40PM -0700, Eliot Miranda wrote:
> 
> BTW St?phane,  IMO the VM's Slang code is far friendlier than the generated
> C.  The Slang translator is the thing that's unfriendly.  It doesn't do much
> verification and so when it mistranslates it can be hard to figure out
> what's going on.  but the Slang/Smalltalk that implements the VM is fine.
> 

Yes, and it is also much easier to read and understand the Slang/Smalltalk
directly in the image.

It is also to be able to look at the C code, but you can do this directly
in the image with SlangBrowser. In Pharo this is not integrated into the
browsers (maybe someone can supply a patch for this?), but you can still
display e.g. the generated C code for ObjectMemory>>fullGC from a
workspace doit:

  Transcript clear; show: (ObjectMemory asCString: #fullGC)

Or the fully inlined version as it would appear in the interp.c file:

  Transcript clear; show: (ObjectMemory asInlinedCString: #fullGC)

Dave