On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:30 AM, St�phane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr> wrote:

Thanks eliot

BTW what is the future of alien compared to FFI. I'm still confused.

I've answered this many times before. �Alien is fine for data representation and callbacks, but not for callouts (too simpleminded, works only on x86). But I have integrated Alien with FFI and will not be developing Alien callouts. �Use FFI callouts instead.

Stef (finished to paint house - well nearly finished before running to ESUG).

On Aug 18, 2011, at 7:37 PM, Eliot Miranda wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> � � I've just published Alien-eem.14 to http://www.squeaksource.com/Alien. �This fix needs to be integrated into each dialect's version of Alien. �The bug causes VM crashes due to trying to free stale pointers from previous runs.
>
> Alien-eem.14
> Author: eem
> Time: 18 August 2011, 10:34:20.024 am
> UUID: 39bedad1-6159-4ba4-be35-277df2a25977
> Ancestors: Alien-eem.13
>
> Fix startUp: discarding of stale values from Alien's GCMallocedAliens class var.
>
> --
> best,
> Eliot
>