[Vm-dev] with permission I would like to claim slots 35 & 37
in the special objects array...
Andreas Raab
andreas.raab at gmx.de
Thu Aug 26 20:51:16 UTC 2010
Do we really need to recycle these slots? Why not just appending these
to the end?
Cheers,
- Andreas
On 8/26/2010 1:31 PM, Eliot Miranda wrote:
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> Hi All,
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> these two slots are the unused MethodContext and BlockContext
> prototypes. They're either side of class BlockClosure. I'd like to use
> one of them for threaded callbacks (the foreign callback process slot,
> upon which a callback from a foreign thread can be run) and keep another
> in reserve. In Smalltalk these are indices 36 & 38 in
> SmalltalkImage>>recreateSpecialObjectsArray. Objections,
> encouragements, alternatives?
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> best
> Eliot
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