[Vm-dev] VM Maker: VMMaker-dtl.400.mcz

[Ben Coman]

On Sun, 5 May 2019 at 05:53, Fabio Niephaus <lists at fniephaus.com> wrote:
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> On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 11:01 PM David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
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>> On Sun, May 05, 2019 at 01:45:13AM +0800, Ben Coman wrote:
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>> > On Sat, 4 May 2019 at 06:11, <commits at source.squeak.org> wrote:
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>> > > This interpreter (vers. 0) cannot read image file (vers. 68021).
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>> > It seems useful to also say "a 32-bit VM is trying to read a 64-bit image"?
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>> It's not a 32-bit VM. The most common case is a 64-bit VM running a 32-bit image.

Supports my proposal.  Even though I know a bit about the topic I got it wrong.
Novices will struggle, and maybe stop trying.

cheers -ben


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> You are correct, but I think Ben's point was to support novice users in understanding what's going on (without having to know what, for example, 68021 means).
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> Why not something like: "This VM only supports 64-bit Sista images, but a 32-bit v3 image was provided." That would help users to select the right VM for their image at [1].
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> [1] https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/releases/tag/201901172323
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>> For reference: http://squeakvm.org/squeak64/faq.html
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>> Dave
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