Thanks, John!
I DID manage to build a new VM from the C source code that is available; I have never yet GENERATED the source from VMMaker. I guess once I figure that out I'll have a place to start now.
(I was poking around in the primitive table directly and recompiling!)
I did find ioExit() in the C-Code, but when I loaded VMMaker, I only found it in InterpreterSimulator.
What a lot to learn!
Thanks again for pointing me towards and example,
Rob
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:19 AM, John M McIntosh < johnmci@smalltalkconsulting.com> wrote:
Well yes you need to use VMMaker Look at the gcBiasToGrowGCLimit setup. gcBiasToGrowGCLimit is an instance var on Interpreter Then you need
Interpreter>>primitiveSetGCBiasToGrowGCLimit "Primitive. If the GC logic has bias to grow, set growth limit" | value | self export: true. value := self stackIntegerValue: 0. successFlag ifTrue:[ gcBiasToGrowGCLimit := value. //Other clutter here which is not important to the example self pop: argumentCount. ].
Then an example to call it.
SystemDictionary>>setGCBiasToGrowGCLimit: aNumber "Primitive. Indicate that the bias to grow logic should do a GC after aNumber Bytes" <primitive: 'primitiveSetGCBiasToGrowGCLimit'> ^self primitiveFailed "Example: Smalltalk setGCBiasToGrowGCLimit: 16*1024*1024. "
Squeak calls the routine ioExit() to exit, which is platform dependent, in that routine you would need to load the return code and do something interesting with it.
On 2009-11-22, at 5:12 AM, Rob Rothwell wrote:
On 22.11.2009, at 05:07, Rob Rothwell wrote:
Hello...
For scripting purposes, I just want to be able to do something like:
SmalltalkImage current quit: errorCode.
So that in the VM I can essentially do:
return errorCode.
at the end of sqMain?
Any pointers on how to push a value BACK to the VM? I have only barely
dabbled with adding some custom menu commands to the VM long ago, and have no idea where to start.
You would need to add a primitive to set the errorCode. This would be
stored in an interpreter variable. Then the VM's exit code would be modified to retrieve that value.
So, unlike all the other examples out there, this would probably be best
if it were NOT an external plugin? Would you be able to use VMMaker to do this (I've never done that before), or just go hand code some stuff?
Do you think this seems like a generically pretty useful think to add to
the VM? If so, I suppose I would like to do it right!
I hacked a temporary solution together with batch files and unique file
names, but it feels a little sloppy.
Thanks,
Rob
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