Aug. 17, 2011
1:46 p.m.
I am a bit puzzled with this primitive. There is no sender of #setGCSemaphore: semaIndex in image, and VM seems like using it for signaling semaphore as a post-GC action. I expected that it is finalization process, which should use that guy.. but no, it just using special objects array indice: restartFinalizationProcess ... FinalizationSemaphore := Smalltalk specialObjectsArray at: 42. ... Apparentlly , each time we have GC, the finalization semaphore is signaled. So, it makes me wonder, how it working because i see that VM signals semaphore in postGCAction, which should be set by the mentioned primitive. -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko AKA sig.