[OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm] 1a4e3a: Oops, there *are* clients of initGlobalStructure. ...

 
  Branch: refs/heads/Cog
  Home:   https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm
  Commit: 1a4e3ab2c0dcb9be718e3e501d83c5ab7aab3273
      https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/commit/1a4e3ab2c0dcb9be718e3e501d83c5ab7aab3273
  Author: Eliot Miranda <[hidden email]>
  Date:   2020-05-07 (Thu, 07 May 2020)

  Changed paths:
    M platforms/RiscOS/vm/sqRPCMain.c
    M platforms/minheadless/common/sqVirtualMachineInterface.c
    M platforms/unix/vm/sqUnixMain.c

  Log Message:
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  Oops, there *are* clients of initGlobalStructure.  Nuke the usage.  We can
restore it if someone really wants, but it is effectively dead code.

 


Ooh, gosh, I remember that stuff. I wish there were hope of time to do Cog for RISC OS...


tim
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> On 2020-05-08, at 10:36 AM, Eliot Miranda <[hidden email]> wrote:
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> Has RISC OS been ported to ARMv8?

No, and I doubt it could be. The issue is that a lot of the aspects that made it such a good OS for early ARM machines - easy low-level access, lots of stuff in assembler, etc etc - are very, very, architecture specific. Even a 'simple' thing like handling pre-emptive mutli-tasking and multiple cores is probably forever beyond an event horizon.

It's sad. There are a lot of nice things about the extreme simple model - no crap with permissions, for one example that costs me so much pain on any 'modern' system. Such is 'progress'

tim
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