Hi all!
We just released the next version of the OpenSmalltalk VM.
Please find the binaries here:
(see VMMaker.oscog-eem.3339 and update.oscog-mt.8.mcm)
That version will be used in the updated bundles for Squeak 6.0 and 5.3.
And probably in upcoming Cuis releases. :-)
Here is an attempt of a change log (since 2022.06):
- Adds error codes for ImageSegment storage primitive fail
- Adds error codes for primitiveFileClose on Linux, macOS, and Windows
- Adds machine-code primitive for #primitiveHighResClock on 64-bit platforms
- Adds machine-code primitive for #perform:withArguments: (84)
- Adds VM parameter 50 for maxLiteralCountForCompile
- Adds primitive 96 (primitiveObjectsAccessibleFromRoots) to be used on an array of objects; internally part of primitive 98 (primitiveStoreImageSegment)
- Adds support for multi-byte data to ClipboardExtendedPlugin
- Adds support for various data types to ClipboardExtendedPlugin on Windows
- Adds support for UTF8 Unicode to ClipboardExtendedPlugin on Windows
- Adds flag #upscaleDisplayIfHighDPI to be set via command line or stored in image header; true by default
- Adds support for -eventtrace on Linux and Windows
- Fixes memory leak related to scale-factor lookup on Linux (X11)
- Fixes warning about applicationSupportsSecureRestorableState on macOS 12.0+
- Fixes potential GDI leak in getDpiSystem on Windows
- Fixes failure of Spur image segment loading due to not having enough memory
- Fixes path lookup for "." (i.e., current directory) on Windows
- Fixes JIT issue around frameless block activation
- Fixes JIT issue around cache flushing on ARMv8
- Fixes bug in primitive 105 (primitiveSpurStringReplace)
- Fixes bug in SpurSegmentManager
- Fixes bug in BitBlt rgbMul combination
- Fixes structure argument passing for ARMv8 FFI call-outs
- Fixes float conversions for FFI call-outs
- Fixes float arguments for FFI call-outs on RiscV64
- Fixes #become: on compiled methods for Spur flavors
- Fixes jitted #perform: primitive by adding argument-count check
- Fixes MoveCqR on ARMv8 for certain bit patterns (in the JIT)
- Fixes crash on ARMv8 when toggling fail/succeed primitives for mixed mode arithmetic
- Fixes accessor-depth calculation in SocketPlugin and other places
- Fixes type-declaration problem in DeflatePlugin for 64-bit RiscV
- Fixes other issues around SmartSyntaxInterpreterPlugins (e.g., JPEGReadWriter2Plugin, BitBltSimulation, SocketPlugin)
- Updates support for compilation on RiscV64 (including FFI plugin)
- Updates VectorEnginePlugin to 2022-10-28 (89cc00e86...) from Cuis
- Updates BitBltPlugin to be faster for noSource/noHalftone setup
- Updates joystick support on Linux
I am sure that I forgot something especially in plugin code. Please expand on this.
BIG THANKS to everybody who has worked on this release! Personally, I would like
to thank Eliot, who is a great software architect who keeps on making the OSVM
faster with every commit. Thank you!
Best,
Marcel (on behalf of the OSVM core dev team)