Folks,
Just as the title says. The "release notes" are somewhat long and involved, so grab them online at:
http://www-sor.inria.fr/~piumarta/squeak64/
Note that it's still very much in the "alpha" stage (so comments, suggestions, etc., are welcome concerning any part of it) and that it is not intended for anyone who isn't already comfortable with building and troubleshooting the VM (problem reports from VM hackers also very welcome, of course). Please send any e-mail to both Dan and myself, direct. Thanks.
Enjoy!
Ian
For those of you who want to play around some on windows try:
http://www.impara.de/~andreas/Squeak64-win32-no-opt.zip
This is a 32bit VM capable of running 64bit images.
WARNING: The above VM is slooooow - I had to compile with -O0 (that's where the "-no-opt" comes from) since it seems we're affected by the same gcc compiler bug (note to Ian: looks like 2.95.2 already has that bug - might be worthwhile to point out to the gcc guys).
Cheers, - Andreas
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Piumarta" ian.piumarta@inria.fr To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list" squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 6:14 PM Subject: [ANN] alpha release of 64-bit support available
Folks,
Just as the title says. The "release notes" are somewhat long and involved, so grab them online at:
http://www-sor.inria.fr/~piumarta/squeak64/
Note that it's still very much in the "alpha" stage (so comments, suggestions, etc., are welcome concerning any part of it) and that it is not intended for anyone who isn't already comfortable with building and troubleshooting the VM (problem reports from VM hackers also very welcome, of course). Please send any e-mail to both Dan and myself, direct. Thanks.
Enjoy!
Ian
On 29 Oct 2004, at 22:09, Andreas Raab wrote:
WARNING: The above VM is slooooow - I had to compile with -O0 (that's where the "-no-opt" comes from) since it seems we're affected by the same gcc compiler bug (note to Ian: looks like 2.95.2 already has that bug - might be worthwhile to point out to the gcc guys).
I just tried with gcc-3.4.2 on i686 and the 64-bit VM compiles and runs just fine.
Cheers, Ian
Ian,
Your release notes indicate you have tested the unix port on Macs, but they only partially support 64 bit processes. A 64 bit process can not access any frameworks, and even in Tiger can only use syslib. So, have you done something fancy they do not know about, or is it really a 64 bit clean, 32 bit VM, accessing a 64 bit image? Have you been able to allocate more than 2 gig of objects? Just wondering if working with the 64 bit VM buys me anything, since I have gotten the 32 bit one to build, but not the 64 bit unix one.
Michael
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