[Cuis] New Cog VMs available...

[Juan Vuletich]

Works like a charm.

Thanks a lot!

Cheers,
Juan Vuletich

On 8/22/2015 1:38 PM, Eliot Miranda wrote:
> ... at http://www.mirandabanda.org/files/Cog/VM/VM.r3427.
>
> Squeak V5 users will want to upgrade their VMs because they, along 
> with Smalltalk changes to follow soon, fix image segments.  But 
> upgrading is not a trivial process because the VMs on my site are not 
> complete.  The best way to update is to take a copy of the Squeak 5.0 
> all-in-one and replace the main VM executable there-in with one from 
> my site.  This gets you up-to-date plugins and an up-to-date VM.  I 
> hope that this process will get easier soon.
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> CogVM binaries as per VMMaker.oscog-eem.1441/r3427
>
> Modify Spur ImageSegment load to become the segmentWordArray into an 
> Array of
> the loaded objects if load is successful, hence decoupling 
> ImageSegment from
> the assumption that objects are allocated in order.
>
> Fix Integer receiver, float arg comparison with NaNs in the machine-code
> primitive.  This has started failing in the FloatTest>>testNaNCompare 
> since the
> new machine-code perform primitive invoked the machine-code version of the
> primitive.  The Interpretewr code has always been correct and the old 
> perform
> primitive would always run the Interpreter primitive if it exsted, 
> since this
> would probably be faster.
>
> Fix the bug introduced by the fix to primitive function invocation in
> VMMaker.oscog-eem.1351  The fix correctly changed primitve code to set the
> primitiveFunctionPointer appropriately when a jitted external 
> primitive was
> rebound, but it didn't remember to void the jit's record of the offset 
> of the
> assignment that sets the primitiveFunctionPointer when switching between
> profiling andf non-profiling regimes, so that the address from the 
> wrong regime
> would remain and be used to smash prmitive code.  The fix is simply to 
> void the
> externalSetPrimOffsets in voidCogCompiledCode.  This fixes the bug whose
> symptom is a hard VM crash when using AndreasSystemProfilier.
>
> Integrate Marcel Taeumel & Tobias Pape's v2 SSL plugin changes.
>
> Fix negative 64-bit shift in the 64-bit Spur Stack interpreter.
>
> Newspeak:
> Fix MNU for cogged self and outer sends.
>
> Make the Newspeak VM packager include the V50 sources file instead of V41.
>
> _,,,^..^,,,_
> best, Eliot
>
>
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