[Vm-dev] SystemTracer64 progress

Levente Uzonyi leves at elte.hu
Tue Jan 12 04:20:24 UTC 2010


On Mon, 11 Jan 2010, 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

Sounds great.

> 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.

Another approach may be to apply the trunk changes to the 64-bit 3.10.2 
image. I guess that would be a great test for the system too.


Levente

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> Dave
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