[Vm-dev] [squeak-dev] Primitives 34-37 for LargeIntegers bit operations not in use?

[Fabio Niephaus]

On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 7:20 PM Levente Uzonyi <leves at caesar.elte.hu> wrote:
>
> Those primitives will fail unless the receiver, the argument and the
> result fit into 64 bits. The LargeIntegers plugin provides primitives
> without such limitation, so currently the latter is in use.

Thanks, makes sense.

Fabio

>
> Levente
>
> On Sun, 30 Dec 2018, Fabio Niephaus wrote:
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> > Hi all,
> >
> > I just noticed that Squeak-trunk does not use the primitives for
> > LargeIntegers bit operations (#34 to #37). Is there are good reason
> > for this (disabled in the VM?) or is this just a mistake? See:
> >
> > SystemNavigation default browseAllSelect: [:cm | cm primitive between:
> > 34 and: 37]
> >
> > Fabio
>