Odd FFI problms with Mac vms...
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Odd FFI problms with Mac vms...
 
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Norbert,
Today I have found that I can get GemTools to work on the mac using Squeak 4.2.4beta1U. Squeak 4.2.5beta1U fails when an FFI call returns an incorrect value (get a Space is low error, because the size comes back as 1330942246849085449, instead of a reasonable number). The image is identical and the gci library file is identical in both cases, I've just switched the vm that I'm using. Squeak 5.7.4.1 gives an 'unsupported calling convention' with the first FFI call into the library. Cog-VM.r2378 gives a 'Could not coerce arguments' error for the FFI call that returns the unreasonable number in 4.2.5beta1U...the argument to the function is a SmallInteger (343552513) ... at least this error gives me hope that I can figure out what's wrong with this call sooner or later ... Anyway, the upshot is that Squeak 4.2.4beta1U is the best bet at the moment on the Mac for running GemTools ... Oh, the image was a PharoCore-1.1.1...Finding _a_ Mac vm, that works gives me an incentive to try getting GemTools running on PharoCore.1.2... If any of the vm or FFI guys have some insight to these problems I'd appreciate some pointers to what may be going on... Dale On Mar 30, 2011, at 10:09 AM, Norbert Hartl wrote: > > Am 30.03.2011 um 19:02 schrieb Johan Brichau: > >> well... it only works with a VM up to version 4.2.2 >> > well, right! Something I forgot to tell. That is the reason I start it from the command line :) > > Norbert > >> everything beyond that ended up in a strange login error, indeed >> >> On 30 Mar 2011, at 18:19, Dale Henrichs wrote: >> >>> Yes I am suspicious that there are some os library mismatches involved as I get an odd error during the login sequence and I haven't successfully characterized the specific problem... >>> >>> I am glad to hear that some folks are not having trouble ... which only deepens the mystery:) >>> >>> Dale >> >> > > |
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On Apr 3, 2011, at 12:36 PM, Dale Henrichs wrote: > Norbert, > > Today I have found that I can get GemTools to work on the mac using Squeak 4.2.4beta1U. > > Squeak 4.2.5beta1U fails when an FFI call returns an incorrect value (get a Space is low error, because the size comes back as 1330942246849085449, instead of a reasonable number). > > The image is identical and the gci library file is identical in both cases, I've just switched the vm that I'm using. > > Squeak 5.7.4.1 gives an 'unsupported calling convention' with the first FFI call into the library. > > Cog-VM.r2378 gives a 'Could not coerce arguments' error for the FFI call that returns the unreasonable number in 4.2.5beta1U...the argument to the function is a SmallInteger (343552513) ... at least this error gives me hope that I can figure out what's wrong with this call sooner or later ... > > Anyway, the upshot is that Squeak 4.2.4beta1U is the best bet at the moment on the Mac for running GemTools ... > > Oh, the image was a PharoCore-1.1.1...Finding _a_ Mac vm, that works gives me an incentive to try getting GemTools running on PharoCore.1.2... > > If any of the vm or FFI guys have some insight to these problems I'd appreciate some pointers to what may be going on... Here's the FFI call: apiGciFetchObjImpl: anOopType <apicall: ulong 'GciFetchObjImpl' (OopType64) > ^self externalCallFailed and OopType64 is a subclass of ExternalStructure with the following fields declaration: fields " (OopType64 defineFields) " ^#(asOop 'ulonglong'). and the function declaration from the header file: int GciFetchObjImpl(OopType theObject); Dale |
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On Apr 3, 2011, at 12:48 PM, Dale Henrichs wrote: > > On Apr 3, 2011, at 12:36 PM, Dale Henrichs wrote: > >> Norbert, >> >> Today I have found that I can get GemTools to work on the mac using Squeak 4.2.4beta1U. >> >> Squeak 4.2.5beta1U fails when an FFI call returns an incorrect value (get a Space is low error, because the size comes back as 1330942246849085449, instead of a reasonable number). >> >> The image is identical and the gci library file is identical in both cases, I've just switched the vm that I'm using. >> >> Squeak 5.7.4.1 gives an 'unsupported calling convention' with the first FFI call into the library. >> >> Cog-VM.r2378 gives a 'Could not coerce arguments' error for the FFI call that returns the unreasonable number in 4.2.5beta1U...the argument to the function is a SmallInteger (343552513) ... at least this error gives me hope that I can figure out what's wrong with this call sooner or later ... >> >> Anyway, the upshot is that Squeak 4.2.4beta1U is the best bet at the moment on the Mac for running GemTools ... >> >> Oh, the image was a PharoCore-1.1.1...Finding _a_ Mac vm, that works gives me an incentive to try getting GemTools running on PharoCore.1.2... >> >> If any of the vm or FFI guys have some insight to these problems I'd appreciate some pointers to what may be going on... > > Here's the FFI call: > > apiGciFetchObjImpl: anOopType > > <apicall: ulong 'GciFetchObjImpl' (OopType64) > > ^self externalCallFailed > > and OopType64 is a subclass of ExternalStructure with the following fields declaration: > > fields > " > (OopType64 defineFields) > " > > ^#(asOop 'ulonglong'). > > and the function declaration from the header file: > > int GciFetchObjImpl(OopType theObject); I thought it might be suspicious that a SmallInteger was being passed in when the argument type should have been OopType, so in the Cog vm, I traced the source of the argument back to the _result_ another FFI call: <apicall: OopType64 'GciNbPerform' (OopType64 char* ulong long) > The result is declared as OopType64 so it looks like the result was not converted to the correct type on return...which ends up with the incorrect argument coming in .. When the Squeak 4.2.5beta1U runs through the same sequence of calls, the result of GciNbPerform gets correctly converted to OopType64, so that seems to be the ulitmate source of the error ... Not sure whether this is a VM issue or an FFI issue, in either case I assume that the bug exists in some C code floating around somewhere.. Dale |
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Hi Dale,
this is a known issue spotted and fixed by Ken Treis. I've been tardy in integrating the fix. I'll try and do that in the next couple of days. A test case would help (Ken, Dale?).
If you want to try Ken's fix in advance then see http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/pipermail/pharo-project/2011-March/044521.html
Apologies, Eliot
On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Dale Henrichs <[hidden email]> wrote:
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I've added http://code.google.com/p/cog/issues/detail?id=23
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 4:38 AM, Eliot Miranda <[hidden email]> wrote: Hi Dale, -- http://marianopeck.wordpress.com |
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Hey Eliot,
I missed that thread:) It looks like Ken included some FFI test cases in his patch code ... what would you need over and above that? An actual C library? Dale On Apr 3, 2011, at 7:38 PM, Eliot Miranda wrote: Hi Dale, this is a known issue spotted and fixed by Ken Treis. I've been tardy in integrating the fix. I'll try and do that in the next couple of days. A test case would help (Ken, Dale?). If you want to try Ken's fix in advance then see http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/pipermail/pharo-project/2011-March/044521.html Apologies, Eliot On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Dale Henrichs <[hidden email]<mailto:[hidden email]>> wrote: On Apr 3, 2011, at 12:48 PM, Dale Henrichs wrote: > > On Apr 3, 2011, at 12:36 PM, Dale Henrichs wrote: > >> Norbert, >> >> Today I have found that I can get GemTools to work on the mac using Squeak 4.2.4beta1U. >> >> Squeak 4.2.5beta1U fails when an FFI call returns an incorrect value (get a Space is low error, because the size comes back as 1330942246849085449, instead of a reasonable number). >> >> The image is identical and the gci library file is identical in both cases, I've just switched the vm that I'm using. >> >> Squeak 5.7.4.1 gives an 'unsupported calling convention' with the first FFI call into the library. >> >> Cog-VM.r2378 gives a 'Could not coerce arguments' error for the FFI call that returns the unreasonable number in 4.2.5beta1U...the argument to the function is a SmallInteger (343552513) ... at least this error gives me hope that I can figure out what's wrong with this call sooner or later ... >> >> Anyway, the upshot is that Squeak 4.2.4beta1U is the best bet at the moment on the Mac for running GemTools ... >> >> Oh, the image was a PharoCore-1.1.1...Finding _a_ Mac vm, that works gives me an incentive to try getting GemTools running on PharoCore.1.2... >> >> If any of the vm or FFI guys have some insight to these problems I'd appreciate some pointers to what may be going on... > > Here's the FFI call: > > apiGciFetchObjImpl: anOopType > > <apicall: ulong 'GciFetchObjImpl' (OopType64) > > ^self externalCallFailed > > and OopType64 is a subclass of ExternalStructure with the following fields declaration: > > fields > " > (OopType64 defineFields) > " > > ^#(asOop 'ulonglong'). > > and the function declaration from the header file: > > int GciFetchObjImpl(OopType theObject); I thought it might be suspicious that a SmallInteger was being passed in when the argument type should have been OopType, so in the Cog vm, I traced the source of the argument back to the _result_ another FFI call: <apicall: OopType64 'GciNbPerform' (OopType64 char* ulong long) > The result is declared as OopType64 so it looks like the result was not converted to the correct type on return...which ends up with the incorrect argument coming in .. When the Squeak 4.2.5beta1U runs through the same sequence of calls, the result of GciNbPerform gets correctly converted to OopType64, so that seems to be the ulitmate source of the error ... Not sure whether this is a VM issue or an FFI issue, in either case I assume that the bug exists in some C code floating around somewhere.. Dale |
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