On 24 Oct 2014, at 10:48 , Hilaire <hilaire@drgeo.eu> wrote:

Le 24/10/2014 10:35, Sven Van Caekenberghe a �crit :
I have to add that NativeBoost based code (like accessing environment variables for certain FileLocator places) breaks down when you have no sources ...

Even with a fake .sources file?

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Few NB-FFI methods will work without sources, as many rely on the automatic argument name -> signature mapping.
This happens the first time a method is called after startup, and platform-specific recompilation occurs. When the argument names are decompiled as arg1, arg2, the mapping will fail. 
(Other NB methods that generate machine code without using NB-FFI,  will  still work though)

Theoretically, one could solve this by internalizing the source of all NB-FFI calling method in the method trailer* at the end of deployment preparation process. (so no NB methods have a chance to trigger before image save) 
NB puts native code into the same trailer space, and combing different method trailer types is currently unsupported (AFAIK), but the transition 
TrailerWithEmbeddedSource** -> TrailerWithNBCode should happen only once.

Cheers,
Henry

* something along the lines of:
 | nativeMethods |
nativeMethods := (Pragma allInstances select: [ :each | each arguments = #(#primitiveNativeCall #NativeBoostPlugin) ]) collect: #method. 

nativeMethods do: [ :nativeMethod | 
nativeMethod methodClass methodDict at: nativeMethod selector put: (nativeMethod copyWithTrailerBytes: 
(CompiledMethodTrailer new sourceCode: nativeMethod sourceCode))] 

** TrailerWithEmbeddedTemps would probably be sufficient, but other than a reserved type, I can't see there's working code for it