[Vm-dev] Re: Need a marker primitive

[David T. Lewis]

On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 11:08:06PM -0700, timfelgentreff wrote:
>  
> Sure, we could do that. I wanted to have it in the VMMaker package (so that
> just loading the VMMaker package prepares the image for running with
> RSqueak), so I was looking for a minimal change. Our subclass would simply
> override primitiveFail to do:
> 
> 
> 
> So I guess all I'm asking is, can we just put primitive 114 (or any number
> that's free for us to implement our custom logic in the VM in) directly into
> InterpreterSimulator without anybody ripping our head off? Are people
> debugging the simulation using gdb and the breakpoint there would annoy
> them?
>

Hi Tim,

Are you asking if you can add an implementation of InterpreterSimulator>>primitiveExitToDebugger
in the trunk (not oscog) VMMaker package? If so, then I would say yes, go
ahead and add it. Please give it a good method comment that explains how
you are using it for RSqueak.

Thanks,

Dave