[Vm-dev] [Pharo-project] Finally, jenkins were able to build win32 VM.

[Eliot Miranda]

Hi Tudor,

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Tudor Girba <tudor at tudorgirba.com> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> The problem is that I cannot get it for you because it's proprietary code,
> and the issue raised when loading the code from a Monticello repository.
>

I sign non-disclosure agreements and destroy files once I'm done :)  So if
you can get it to crash loading from a package-cache and you're happy for
me to sign an NDA I can still look at it.  But only if you;re comfortable
and only if you have a reproducible case.


> I got some strange crashes in other contexts but without having time to
> dig into these :(. I will try to keep my eyes opened and find some
> reproducible case.
>
> Cheers,
> Doru
>

cool.

cheers!


>
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> On 15 Mar 2012, at 20:03, Igor Stasenko wrote:
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> >
> > On 15 March 2012 19:28, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 7:44 AM, Tudor Girba <tudor at tudorgirba.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Strange. I tried to reproduce the problem, but following the same path
> >>> worked fine the second time.
> >>
> >>
> >> Such GC bugs are extremely sensitive to exactly the sequence of
> mutations in the heap. So the time in between mouse clicks or keyboard
> presses, or even the length of delays or the date and time can change the
> form of the heap.   The only way I know to reproduce this kind of bug
> reliably is to write a doit that causes the system to crash without user
> intervention.  You can either supply the doit in a file to the VM at
> startup or (more convenient for those debugging it) write a doit that
> starts with a snapshot, e.g.
> >>
> >>     Smalltalk saveAs.
> >>     Crasher new crash
> >>
> >
> > Not again this flaky GC/become stuff. I was hoping that last one we
> > busted in summer..
> >
> >
> > --
> > Best regards,
> > Igor Stasenko.
>
> --
> www.tudorgirba.com
>
> "No matter how many recipes we know, we still value a chef."
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-- 
best,
Eliot
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