[Vm-dev] egg sucking alert

[tim Rowledge]

On 10-12-2014, at 3:13 PM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
>     just a simple message about 64-bit code.  Don't use int.  Please use long, unsigned long, sqInt or usqInt for variables that are of the machine's natural word length

That’s stuff we dealt with a long time ago, surely? The entire idea of introducing the sqInt/usqInt etc type defines was to allow the old 64bit plain interp vm to build. Yeah, this is what we wrote about it - 
http://squeakvm.org/squeak64/ Wholly Khao - ten years ago.

So the interesting question is how did ‘bad’ stuff get to be there still?

tim
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