[Vm-dev] SystemTracer64 progress

[John M McIntosh]

excellent news

On 2010-01-11, at 7:55 PM, David T. Lewis wrote:

> 
> Over the weekend I made some progress in getting SystemTracer updated
> to do 64-bit image tracing. Previously SystemTracer64 did not work on
> little-endian machines (Mantis 5240). This is corrected now, and the
> code is on SqueakSource in project "SystemTracing".
> 
> I can now trace a Squeak 3.10.2 image to 64-bit format on my Linux
> AMD box (little endian), producing a runnable 64-bit image. For
> an up to date Squeak trunk image, I can trace a 64 image that
> loads and runs (display opens and things start working), but that
> has problems with resuming its background processes (low space
> watcher etc). Possibly it's related to the block closure changes,
> although I believe there was an earlier report of a Pharo image
> with block closures being successfully traced to 64 bit format.
> 
> Dave
> 

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