It would be missing, propose a change set. I would think people usually don't use VMMaker images as their daily work image. So take image, load vmaker, load vmaker stuff for alien, make alien plugin. got to my work image that doesn't have vmmaker in it, load alien support stuf, you don't need the alien-vmmaker-support btw. run tests. On 2010-03-01, at 3:36 PM, Javier Pimás wrote:
Hi, I'm still trying to advance with this. Don't know what caused the ObjectMemory classPools but it seems to be away now, maybe I did some mistake last time.
The thing is that now I have in ObjectMemory classPools all the original ones plus 4 new elements, which I think were added with this Alien-VMMaker-Support override:
ObjectMemory>>#initialize initialize #( #ClassAlien #ClassUnsafeAlien #InvokeCallbackSelector #SelectorAttemptToAssign) do: [:c | [ObjectMemory addClassVarName: c] ifError: []].
the thing is that it never assigns them any value, so my theory is that there's some code missing? Then in Interpreter it happens something quite similar. Interpreter>>#initialize does this:
...
#(#PrimErrBadArgument #PrimErrBadIndex #PrimErrBadNumArgs #PrimErrBadReceiver #PrimErrGenericFailure #PrimErrInappropriate #PrimErrNoCMemory #PrimErrNoMemory #PrimErrNoModification #PrimErrNotFound #PrimErrTableIndex #PrimErrUnsupported #PrimNoErr ) do: [:c | [Interpreter addClassVarName: c] ifError: []].
#(#primFailCode) do: [:i | [Interpreter addInstVarName: i] ifError: []].
...
but then never calls initializePrimitiveErrorCodes, which would set the vars to a meaningfull value.
In conclusion, the question would be, where is this missing initialization code?
Hope you can help, thanks!
Javier.
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Javier Pimás <elpochodelagente@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 12:19 AM, John M McIntosh <johnmci@smalltalkconsulting.com> wrote:
On 2010-02-22, at 6:48 PM, Javier Pimás wrote:
Nice!!!!!!!! It's compiling now. Now, I loaded tests, and here are the results:
37 run, 17 passed, 0 failures, 20 errors.
TestCallingSequenceChar10Long2 TestCallingSequenceChar2LongLong2 TestCallingSequenceChar8Long2 TestCallingSequenceChar9Long2 TestCallingSequenceCharLongLong2 TestCallingSequenceChars TestCallingSequenceDoubles14 TestCallingSequenceDoubles2 TestCallingSequenceFloats13 TestCallingSequenceFloats14 TestCallingSequenceFloats2 TestCallingSequenceFloats2WithInteger TestCallingSequenceFloats2WithInteger2 TestCallingSequenceFloats7 TestCallingSequenceInt TestCallingSequenceInt8 TestCallingSequenceIntWithFloatArgs TestCallingSequenceLongLong2 TestCallingSequenceShort TestCallingSequenceString
Oh look SUnits, great stuff (*cough* well I wrote most of them).
Cool, this is really really useful (although I sometimes find wrting tests boring ;) ).
It is failing in places where it does primLoadLibrary: 'IA32ABI'. Why should it try to load itself, if it's compiled as an internal plugin? I compiled it as external too but didn't work either.
Well it compiled, but that doesn't mean it works. In fact the error means the plugin code is never loaded, or is callable. Now one thing to consider is that the plugin load fails, because it can't find it. (external usage). Or because (internal and external plugin) the VM Version and the plugin version don't match.
Look for your definition of #define VM_PROXY_MINOR 8
It should be 8 or higher for compiling BOTH the VM and the Plugin. Since the sqVirtualMachine.h is in the IA32ABI folder maybe there is mass confusion about which header is being used?
If for example your VM say it's a VM_PROXY_MINOR of 7, then it won't work with a plugin compiled with VM_PROXY_MINOR = 8. It silently fails... Well actually it gives the primLoadLibrary failure, but good luck in guessing why...
Well, I just overwrote sqVirtualMachine.c/h in Cross/vm, shouldn't have I? It wouldn't compile if I didn't and its sets it to 8. Is it defined in any other place?
Other question, can classic FFI and Alien live nicely together (I mean have x plugin use classic FFI while y uses Alien)?
yes.
One more: should I use IA32ABIPlugin or IA32ABIPluginAttic? You can't have both in, right?
One is a subclass of the other. I use the IA32ABIPluginAttic one.
Ok, what is the difference between them? a performance issue? everything works the same I choose one or the other?
Syntax highligthing is broken for Alien primitive methods like these:
<primitive: 'primUnsignedShortAtPut' error: errorCode module: 'IA32ABI'>
Lastly, as I said when I loaded Alien Core the first time, I got this error while loading it:
Alien class>>#ensureInSpecialObjectsArray: "Index probably wrong".
What should I do about that? ignore it?
Well it seems to be related to
((Smalltalk includesKey: #ObjectMemory) and: [((Smalltalk at: #ObjectMemory) classPool at: #ClassAlien ifAbsent: []) ~~ (index - 1)]) ifTrue: [self error: 'index probably wrong'].
Usually people don't have ObjectMemory loaded in their image, and I"m not sure what it is check for. Why don't you try it in a regular Pharo image versus your VMMaker image.
In Pharo 1.0RC2 without any change, ObjectMemory doesn't exist. When I load VMMaker it's downloaded from monticello, but obviously, #ClassAlien isn't defined inside
(Smalltalk at: #ObjectMemory) classPool
Interestingly, after load alien, #ClassAlien gets added as a key, but all values of (Smalltalk at: #ObjectMemory) classPool are set to nil, like this:
(Smalltalk at: #ObjectMemory) classPool inspect:
- size : 119 [#AllButHashBits] : nil [#AllButMarkBit] : nil [#AllButMarkBitAndTypeMask] : nil [#AllButRootBit] : nil [#AllButTypeMask] : nil ... [#ClassAlien] : nil ...
Any ideas?
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