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johnmci

Mac carbon VM goes to 4.2.5beta1U

In order to wrap up some VM fixes that should be pushed into the Squeak 4.x offering I've compiled up a 4.2.5beta1U VM

Someone should run the Sunit and smoke test to ensure the VM is sane.

Follow the macintosh link from http://www.squeakvm.org/index.html

4.2.5b1 We update to VMMaker-jcg.182, and we make a new FFI plugin using the latest FFI code base (1.7.0) which includes Josh Gargus changes for FFI ExternalForms to support the OpenCL code.

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Josh Gargus

Re: Mac carbon VM goes to 4.2.5beta1U

Thanks very much John.

For everyone's information, ExternalForm is not only for OpenCL (although that's the use-case that motivated it). It is useful whenever you happen to have a pointer to external memory that you know holds pixels. Here's a trivial example:

| extent form ptr |
extent := 400@300.
form := ExternalForm extent: extent depth: 32.
ptr := ExternalAddress gcallocate: (extent x * extent y * 4).
form setManualSurfacePointer: ptr.
Display displayScaledOn: form.
form displayAt: 0@0.
form destroySurface.

Cheers,
Josh

On Jun 15, 2010, at 5:57 PM, John M McIntosh wrote:

> In order to wrap up some VM fixes that should be pushed into the Squeak 4.x offering I've compiled up a 4.2.5beta1U VM
>
> Someone should run the Sunit and smoke test to ensure the VM is sane.
>
> Follow the macintosh link from http://www.squeakvm.org/index.html
>
> 4.2.5b1 We update to VMMaker-jcg.182, and we make a new FFI plugin using the latest FFI code base (1.7.0) which includes Josh Gargus changes for FFI ExternalForms to support the OpenCL code.
>
> --
> ===========================================================================
> John M. McIntosh <[hidden email]> Twitter: squeaker68882
> Corporate Smalltalk Consulting Ltd. http://www.smalltalkconsulting.com
> ===========================================================================
>
>
>
>
>

Sean P. DeNigris

Re: Mac carbon VM goes to 4.2.5beta1U

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Cool, thanks!

It took me a little figuring out the last two times I downloaded a new Mac VM, so I wrote down the steps at http://seandenigris.com/blog/, which boil down to (in Terminal):
$> ftp -a smalltalkconsulting.com
ftp> binary
ftp> get “Squeak 4.2.5beta1U.app.zip”

Sean

Cheers,
Sean