[Vm-dev] argCnt, argVec, engVec alternatives

[John M McIntosh]

Well these aren't vm variables they are the environment,  and pointer(s) to arguments passed to the executable at launch time via the command line.   
it's all pure unix logic, nothing to do with the vm. You could of course have a fetch routine on the interpreter proxy to better hide the implementation details as you
already have an primitive to fetch the parms from the VM. Not sure about the environment variables I don't think there was an api to allow smalltalk code to get at those? 

On 2011-01-05, at 10:01 AM, Esteban Lorenzano wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> Ok, I'm trying to run the UnixOSProcessPlugin on Cocoa Cog VM (own version, still not updated with latest from Eliot). One of the things I need to solve is some references to argCnt, argVec, engVec in plugin implementation... I think it is not-good give a plugin access to vm parameters through globals... 
> So, I wonder if there is an alternative to elegantly provide this... 
> 
> Cheers,
> Esteban

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