[Vm-dev] SystemTracer64 progress

[Laval Jannik]

Hi Dave, 

Thank you for your feedback :),
Now, in the PharoCore64, some tests crash or loops.

I will see that :)

Cheers,
Jannik

On Jan 12, 2010, at 13:29 , David T. Lewis wrote:

> 
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 08:31:11AM +0100, Laval Jannik wrote:
>> 
>> On Jan 12, 2010, at 04:55 , 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.
>>> 
>> 
>> Hi David,
>> 
>> I cannot write my changes.
>> So you can have them in attachment.
>> 
>> In these .cs, there is a merge with your version .15.
>> And it works with Pharo.
> 
> Jannik,
> 
> Thank you for sending this. I will compare and merge as soon as I
> have some more free time.
> 
> Also, your PharoCore64-1.1-11152-UNSTABLE image works fine on my
> Linux box.
> 
> Dave
>