[Vm-dev] [urgent] Spur sometimes produces unloadable image segments

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Sat May 30 17:18:29 UTC 2020


Hi Max,

I'm not sure if it would help, but if there is a code snippet that
reproduces the failure, I can try running it on Squeak to see if it
gives any clues.

Dave

On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 07:00:29PM +0200, Max Leske wrote:
>  
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I desperately need some help with image segments in spur (Pharo). After having tested close to 1000 image segments that were written with a spur VM I have ended up with a couple that can't be loaded. I can reproducibly generate them from our old segements (Squeak 4 VM).
> 
> Without full confidence in the image segment code I can't upgrade and couldn't upgrade those few instances anyway. I would be very thankful if someone had the time to look into this quickly.
> 
> I will try to debug it myself but it will probably take me a couple of hours (if not days) until I have succeeded in building a VM that I can debug.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Max




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