Any patch for InterpreterSimulator

> My first post on this list, and it may not be my last.  I am trying  
> to run the InterpreterSimulator adn am having issues.   Mathieu  
> Suen mentioned this list and that there may be a patch for it.  
> Does anyone know of a patch?
>
> My current issue is:  In postGCAction, the gcSemaphoreIndex is nil,
> which blows up in signalSemaphoreWithIndex:.  Trying to be a bit  
> more self
> sufficient, I put a halt in primitiveSetGCSemaphore and reran it,  
> but it
> never breaks, so it never seems to get set.   Full stop.
>
> thank you,
> Rob

>
> >* primitiveSetGCSemaphore: Indicates a semaphore (index) to be
> signaled whenever a garbage collection occurs.
>
> it should have a value of zero if it's not used. Obviously in C  that's
> zero by the magic of auto-initialization of that C variable,  and so the
> code runs without care, but in Smalltalk it's nil and you  die.
>
> I'd make a mantis report and supply a patch to initialize the value
> explicitly in the interpreter startup code initializeInterpreter: so  that
> the simulator will run.
>
>
> On Oct 24, 2007, at 7:09 PM, Rob Withers wrote:
>
>> My first post on this list, and it may not be my last.  I am trying  to
>> run the InterpreterSimulator adn am having issues.   Mathieu  Suen
>> mentioned this list and that there may be a patch for it.   Does anyone
>> know of a patch?
>>
>> My current issue is:  In postGCAction, the gcSemaphoreIndex is nil,
>> which blows up in signalSemaphoreWithIndex:.  Trying to be a bit  more
>> self
>> sufficient, I put a halt in primitiveSetGCSemaphore and reran it,  but it
>> never breaks, so it never seems to get set.   Full stop.
>>
>> thank you,
>> Rob
>
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> Thanks, John.  I fixed this in ObjectMemory>>#initializeObjectMemory:,
> since I figured it belonged there more than in the Interpreter.  On
> running further, I also had to add fixes to the following, all switching
> from Smalltalk to SmalltalkImage current:
>    InterpreterSimulator>>#primitiveGetAttribute
>    InterpreterSimulator>>#vmPathGet:Length:
>    InterpreterSimulator>>#vmPathSize
>
> Then I hit FilePluginSimulator>>#primitiveFileRead.  This gets its file
> from:
>    file := self fileValueOf: (interpreterProxy stackValue: 3).
> where the stackValue is 20, which is not an integer object and the file is
> nil.  It's beyond me.
>
> How can I report these to Mantis.  Is there a website for it?
>
> Cheers,
> Rob
>
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> From: "John M McIntosh" <[hidden email]>
> To: "Squeak Virtual Machine Development Discussion"
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> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 7:20 PM
> Subject: Re: [Vm-dev] Any patch for InterpreterSimulator
>
>
>>
>> >* primitiveSetGCSemaphore: Indicates a semaphore (index) to be
>> signaled whenever a garbage collection occurs.
>>
>> it should have a value of zero if it's not used. Obviously in C  that's
>> zero by the magic of auto-initialization of that C variable,  and so the
>> code runs without care, but in Smalltalk it's nil and you  die.
>>
>> I'd make a mantis report and supply a patch to initialize the value
>> explicitly in the interpreter startup code initializeInterpreter: so
>> that the simulator will run.
>>
>>
>> On Oct 24, 2007, at 7:09 PM, Rob Withers wrote:
>>
>>> My first post on this list, and it may not be my last.  I am trying  to
>>> run the InterpreterSimulator adn am having issues.   Mathieu  Suen
>>> mentioned this list and that there may be a patch for it.   Does anyone
>>> know of a patch?
>>>
>>> My current issue is:  In postGCAction, the gcSemaphoreIndex is nil,
>>> which blows up in signalSemaphoreWithIndex:.  Trying to be a bit  more
>>> self
>>> sufficient, I put a halt in primitiveSetGCSemaphore and reran it,  but
>>> it
>>> never breaks, so it never seems to get set.   Full stop.
>>>
>>> thank you,
>>> Rob
>>
>> --
>> ========================================================================
>> ===
>> John M. McIntosh <[hidden email]>
>> Corporate Smalltalk Consulting Ltd.  http://www.smalltalkconsulting.com
>> ========================================================================
>> ===
>>
>>
>>
>

>
> My current issue is:  In postGCAction, the gcSemaphoreIndex is nil,
> which blows up in signalSemaphoreWithIndex:.  Trying to be a bit  
> more self
> sufficient, I put a halt in primitiveSetGCSemaphore and reran it,  
> but it
> never breaks, so it never seems to get set.   Full stop.
>
> thank you,
> Rob

>
>
> On Oct 25, 2007, at 04:09 , Rob Withers wrote:
>
>> My first post on this list, and it may not be my last.  I am trying  to
>> run the InterpreterSimulator adn am having issues.   Mathieu  Suen
>> mentioned this list and that there may be a patch for it.   Does anyone
>> know of a patch?
>
> The patches I know of are in this report:
>
> http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=6555
>
> Cheers,
> Adrian
>
>>
>> My current issue is:  In postGCAction, the gcSemaphoreIndex is nil,
>> which blows up in signalSemaphoreWithIndex:.  Trying to be a bit  more
>> self
>> sufficient, I put a halt in primitiveSetGCSemaphore and reran it,  but it
>> never breaks, so it never seems to get set.   Full stop.
>>
>> thank you,
>> Rob
>
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