[Vm-dev] [OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm] a385f5: Add a configure option to specify name of the inst...

[Tobias Pape]

> On 5. Sep 2021, at 22:43, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sun, Sep 05, 2021 at 08:51:44PM +0200, Tobias Pape wrote:
>> 
>> Hi
>> 
>> 
>>> On 5. Sep 2021, at 19:31, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I think that the 32-bit / 64-bit spur installation conflict is resolved
>>> in branch dtl/distinct-VERSION_TAG, although it could use a second set
>>> of eyes before I'd feel comfortable merging it.
>> 
>> is that the bit-ness of the image the binary understand or the bit-ness of the binary itself?
>> -t
>> 
> 
> It's the bit-ness of the binary itself.
> 
> For the opensmalltalk-vm VMs, this amounts to the same thing, although
> in theory the image word size could be independent of host word size.
> But in any scenario, you don't want to mix 32-bit and 64-bit executable
> files in the same /usr/local/lib/squeak/<foo> directory, so the simple
> check for sizeof(void *) should serve for the forseeable future.
> 
> As an aside, in the interpreter VM a similar installation naming
> convention is used, but in that case it refers strictly to image
> word size regardless of host word size. Thus the naming conventions
> are similar, but they actually mean different things on opensmalltalk-vm
> compared to squeakvm.org interpreter VM. But for now that difference
> does not matter.
ACK.
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