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Eliot Miranda-2

New Cog VMs available at...

VM.r2518/.

CogVM binaries as per VMMaker.oscog-eem.139/r2518.

Add access to VM arguments to Mac. Make Windows, Mac and Unix consistent:

Smalltalk getSystemAttribute:

-1 => executable name

-2 .. -n => VM arguments *including* image (if explicitly supplied).

Replace win32 command line parsing with unixesque code using CommandLineToArgvW.

linux launch script:

Cope with old linuxes use of /lib/tls hack for an optional thread-local-storage

version of libc/libpthread. The launch scripts add /lib/tls:/usr/lib/tls: to

LD_LIBRARY_PATH instead of /lib:/usr/lib: if the VM is linked to /lib/tls/libc.

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Eliot

Eliot Miranda-2

Re: [squeak-dev] Re: [Pharo-project] New Cog VMs available at...

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 11:54 PM, Alexander Lazarević <[hidden email]> wrote:

2011/11/29 Eliot Miranda <[hidden email]>

-1 => executable name
-2 .. -n => VM arguments *including* image (if explicitly supplied).

Before we had (at least on Linux and I guess with the StackVM):

0 => executable name
-1 .. -n => VM arguments *including* image (if explicitly supplied).

Right. And that makes sense.

Why the need to change that? And what's 0 returning now? The same as 1 (with path)?

I wanted all three platforms to be the same (the Mac was not answering any VM parameters at all, and Windows was returning the executable in -1). But I missed that 0 was answering the executable name. It makes no sense for Smalltalk getSystemAttribute: 0 and Smalltalk getSystemAttribute: -1 to answer the same thing. I will change it (back) to

0 => executable name

-1 .. -n => VM arguments *including* image (if explicitly supplied).

and do so on all platforms.

Thanks for spotting this.

Alex

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Eliot

laza

Re: [Pharo-project] [squeak-dev] Re: New Cog VMs available at...

2011/11/30 Eliot Miranda <[hidden email]>:
> and do so on all platforms.

Harmonizing this across all platforms is definitely a GoodThing™! Thanks!

Alex