Yes, the VM should abort the primitive with a failure, it's a VM flaw and I posted to vm-dev already.
2013/12/17 Matias Garcia Isaia <[email protected]> > As stated in > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20621119/how-to-print-an-integer-to-transcript, > SmallInteger inherits it's new: message from Behaviour, so if one expects > SmaillInteger new: 0 to give you a 0, it really crashes the VM while trying > to Inspect the result. > > Running it with an argument different than 0 (SmallInteger new: 10) raises > an error ("SmallInteger cannot have variable sized instances"). > > I think it would be really nice to have it just return the parameter, but > that's opinology - you decide how to solve it. The thing I think is not > subjective is that the VM crashes - that shouldn't happen. > > Tested in #30649 >
