[BUG] in VM perform primitive

Hello,

i just discovered a serious bug,  which prevents from performing a
methods which having many args
(but not too many for compiler and run normally).

The problem is, that VM tries to using the currently active context to push
all of the arguments on it, and then just do normal send.
But a sender context may be not big enough (small frame) to accomodate
all pushed values.

In the attachment you can find that running any of

PerformTest new doPerformXX

leads to primitive failure.


I think that we could fix that at the image side,
by telling the compiler to always use a big stack frame for following method:

Object>>perform: selector withArguments: argArray
        "Send the selector, aSymbol, to the receiver with arguments in argArray.
        Fail if the number of arguments expected by the selector
        does not match the size of argArray.
        Primitive. Optional. See Object documentation whatIsAPrimitive."

        <primitive: 84>
        ^ self perform: selector withArguments: argArray inSuperclass: self class


so, when prim 84 fails, it will activate this method
and then, there should be enough space to push all method's arguments.

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Here's a fix, which now allows to run

any of PerformTest new doPerformXX
without failure.

On 19 May 2010 00:30, Igor Stasenko <[hidden email]> wrote:

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- added bug entry http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7534


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