[Vm-dev] Stupidifying FFI/library loading mechanism

[David T. Lewis]

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 02:39:52PM +0200, Igor Stasenko wrote:
>  
> On 26 May 2011 14:16, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> >
> > I am not sure if it applies to your proposal here, but just in
> > case I want to mention one note of caution. The #primLoadModule
> > that was discussed previously in the "Sandbox" thread will not
> > work on a 64-bit platform, for the same reason that FFI does not
> > work on a 64-bit platform.
> >
> Sorry, i din't followed that issue (cant remember). The reason because
> of mixing 32/64bit libraries, or something else?

Something else. It's basic type declaration issues, storing 64-bit pointers
in 32-bit ints etc.

<http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7237>

<http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/vm-dev/2008-May/001945.html>

Dave