IIRC Spur VMs do not support image segments. There should be code written in Smalltalk to do what the V3 VMs used to do (loading and saving). Wrong list btw. CC'd vm-dev.

Levente

On Sun, 7 May 2017, Max Leske wrote:

Hi,

I'm trying to store an image segment with the latest pharo.cog.spur VM (32 bits) but keep failing. The segment should produce a file of around 60 MB. With an old V3 VM this is no problem at all. There, the WordArrayForSegment instance has a size of 4094179 but with the new VM I always run out of space because the primitive returns nil and, therefore, the word array size is constantly being increased.

I've built a debug VM and am stepping through the code but I don't have a clear understanding of everything that's happening. The failure happens on line 46626 of gcc3x-cointerp.c:

newOop = (copy - segStart) / 8; if (newOop > (identityHashHalfWordMask())) { return PrimErrLimitExceeded; // <--------------- failure }

What I don't understand, for example, is why "newOop" is checked against "identityHashHalfWordMask()" and not against the segment end ("endSeg"). Here's a list of the current values of the variables upon failure:

objOop sqInt 180812096 segAddr sqInt 494731288 segStart sqInt 461176856 endSeg sqInt 815841432 bodySize usqInt 64 contextSize sqInt 335672448 copy sqInt 494731288 hash sqInt 0 hash1 sqInt 4194302 i sqInt 833574680 iLimiT sqInt 833574688 methodHeader sqInt 1193471 newOop sqInt 4194304 numMediatedSlots sqInt 833574688 numSlots usqInt 14 oop sqInt 142640272

As you can see, "endSeg" would be more than large enough to hold the object. Is it possible that there's an error here?

Cheers, Max