On 06 Jan 2014, at 13:43, Clément Bera <[email protected]> wrote:
> So I tried and it worked.
>
> In Opal to remove the usage of #==, I removed it from the special selector
> array in the method:
> IRBytecodeGenerator class>>specialSelectorsArray
> ^ #(#+ 1 #- 1 #< 1 #> 1 #<= 1 #>= 1 #= 1 #~= 1 #* 1 #/ 1 #\\ 1 #@ 1
> #bitShift: 1 #// 1 #bitAnd: 1 #bitOr: 1 #at: 1 #at:put: 2 #size 0 #next 0
> #nextPut: 1 #atEnd 0 #== 1 nil 0 #blockCopy: 1 #value 0 #value: 1 #do: 1 #new
> 0 #new: 1 #x 0 #y 0)
>
> Then I ran:
> IRBytecodeGenerator initialize.
> OpalCompiler recompileAll.
>
> Then in my example:
>
> A>>==
> ^ true
>
> a := A new.
> b := A new.
> a == b answered true, so it worked.
>
The only side effect it can have is that people might have written code with
the knowledge that sending
#== can not lead to an interrupt check, e.g. a GC happening or process
switching.
Marcus