Most probably it generates invalid opcode. Need to check that with disassembler. On 22 July 2012 05:27, Lawson English <lenglish5@cox.net> wrote:
Still playing with Native Boost assembler.
This code instantly crashes Pharo 1.4 with NB installed:
TestAssem swapDoubFirst: 1.0 withSecond: 2.0.
TestAssem>>swapDoubFirst: r1 withSecond: r2
<primitive: #primitiveNativeCall module: #NativeBoostPlugin>
^ NBFFICallout cdecl: #( double ( double r1, double r2 )) emitCall: [:gen | | asm proxy smpfr scnt| asm := gen asm. proxy := gen proxy.
asm pop: asm ECX. asm fld: asm ESP ptr64 . asm fld: asm ESP ptr64 + 8 .
asm fxch: asm ST0. ]
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