Fwd: squeak 32bit clean, no? yes?

 
Let me try that with the correct email address...

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> From: John M McIntosh <[hidden email]>
> Date: September 8, 2010 2:20:29 AM PDT
> To: Squeak VM Developers <[hidden email]>
> Subject: squeak 32bit clean, no? yes?
> Reply-To: [hidden email]
>
> It's 2:05am I should be in bed but I'm confused.
>
> given BaseHeaderSize is 4
> foo->newMethod is a usqInt  (unsigned)
>
> I see in a interp.c
> Automatically generated from Squeak on #(27 April 2009 5:35:31 pm)
>
> sqInt activateNewMethod(void) {
> register struct foo * foo = &fum;
>    sqInt initialIP;
>    sqInt newContext;
>    sqInt where;
>    sqInt methodHeader;
>    sqInt tempCount;
>    sqInt i;
>    sqInt nilOop;
>    sqInt tmp;
>
>       methodHeader = longAt((foo->newMethod + BaseHeaderSize) + (HeaderIndex << ShiftForWord));
>
>
> So that is a longAt: ( unsigned sqInt + 4)
>
> But in  the interp.c code I generated in July I have
>       methodPointer (a sqInt) =  foo->newMethod (a usqint)
>       then
>       methodHeader = longAt((methodPointer + (BASE_HEADER_SIZE)) + (HeaderIndex << (SHIFT_FOR_WORD)));
>
> So that is a longAt: (sqInt + 4).
>
> Er so if  foo->newMethod is > 0x7FFFFFFF  won't that +4 not do what we think it should do?
> Or should I go to bed now?

>
>
> /* Automatically generated from Squeak on 8 July 2010 12:32:36 pm
>   by VMMaker 4.2.6
> */
>
>
> sqInt activateNewMethod(void) {
> register struct foo * foo = &fum;
>    sqInt tempCount;
>    sqInt nilOop;
>    sqInt where;
>    sqInt initialIP;
>    sqInt i;
>    sqInt newContext;
>    sqInt methodHeader;
>    sqInt methodPointer;
>    sqInt tmp;
>    sqInt activeCntx;
>    sqInt valuePointer;
>    sqInt valuePointer1;
>
>       /* begin headerOf: */
>       methodPointer = foo->newMethod;
>       methodHeader = longAt((methodPointer + (BASE_HEADER_SIZE)) + (HeaderIndex << (SHIFT_FOR_WORD)));
>
>
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