[Vm-dev] egg sucking alert

[John McIntosh]

Unloved, no owner? plugins don't get much love... "(9 years, 8 months ago)
by *piumarta* "


On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 3:51 PM, John McIntosh <
> johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com> wrote:
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>> Gulity guilty.. but 9 years, 6 months ago...
>>
>> But I think you will find we migrated to the sqmacunixfileinterface.c
>> about 8 years 10 months ago and abandon the older carbon file FSSPec and
>> hfs+ file names. The macunixfile interface is a copy of the unix file
>> interface but has the logic needed to deal with macintosh alias files, not
>> to be confused with unix alias file nodes...
>>
>> So not sure you need this plugin, as I'd think the unix async one would
>> be the target?
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> I'm talking about
> platforms/Cross/plugins/AsynchFilePlugin/AsynchFilePlugin.h  (amongst other
> offenders).
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>> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 3:22 PM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
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>>> 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
>>> --
>>> tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
>>> Strange OpCodes: SFA: Seek Financial Assistance
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>> --
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>> ===========================================================================
>> John M. McIntosh <johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com>
>> https://www.linkedin.com/in/smalltalk
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> --
> best,
> Eliot
>
>


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