[Vm-dev] compiling the stack VM with LLVM at -Ofast

[Ken G. Brown]

Whatdyamean, we were civilized! :)

Ken,
from my iPhone

> On Oct 9, 2014, at 10:49, John McIntosh <johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 9:28 AM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi John,
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>>> On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 9:39 PM, John McIntosh <johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com> wrote:
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>>> Due to attending the Vancouver Island Camp Smalltalk 2014, I spent a few hours (ok many) being motivated, and trying to compile a 2009 era stack VM with LLVM optimization fully on. 
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>> Why??  Why are you not trying to compile a 2014 version, e.g. in http://www.squeakvm.org/svn/squeak/branches/Cog/stacksrc?  That's over five years old.
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> Goush, I was at Camp Smalltalk, cutoff from civilization, and only had a 8 year old mac book pro running 10.7.5 and Xcode 4.6 with a source tree for my iOS Fractions Calculator. So it was a comfortable viewpoint to have in order to figure out where llvm was busted. 
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>>> I can say that part is mostly completed, but I need some help understanding how to bring the VM source up to date (without GCC) so that I can see how best to tackle a few remaining issues. Mostly focusing around something odd in the LargeInteger Plugin. 
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>> The up-to-date code is in svn.
>> Alternatively you can build an up-to-date VMMaker image following the instructions in http://www.squeakvm.org/svn/squeak/branches/Cog/image/buildspurtrunkvmmakerimage.sh and/or http://www.squeakvm.org/svn/squeak/branches/Cog/image/buildsqueaktrunkvmmakerimage.sh 
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>> HTH
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>> best,
>> Eliot
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