On Tue, 3 Aug 2010, James Ladd wrote:

Hi All,

InstructionPrinter printInstructionsOn: doesnt print anything for variable accessor methods. Is this correct and expected?

I have a class with an instance variable called 'first' and I have a method called 'first' which simply answers the instance variable.

first ^ first

When I dump the bytecode for this I get nothing.

However, when I add the following to the method the result is as expect, ie: the instance variable is answered.

first |x| x := 1. ^ first

13 <76> pushConstant: 1

14 <68> popIntoTemp: 0 15 <00> pushRcvr: 0

16 <7C> returnTop

Why is there no bytecode for the simpler case?

Because there are special primitives for that. Try this: String streamContents: [ :stream | (YourClass >> #first) longPrintOn: stream indent: 0 ]. Levente

Rgs, James.