The first thing we need is an automatic test run for 64 bit…

https://ci.inria.fr/pharo/ <https://ci.inria.fr/pharo/>

has just 32bit (win, linux, mac). It needs to have 64bit, too.

But I think we should not wait with the release for that.

> On 2 Jun 2017, at 14:27, Sven Van Caekenberghe <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am wondering a bit about the state of Pharo 6 64-bit.
> 
> On one hand the current RC seems to work really well on macOS (for me), it is 
> stable and clean.
> 
> Is the goal to ship this variant as a real finished version ? 
> 
> If so, I think must make it pass as much unit tests as possible.
> 
> 
> I filed a couple of issues related to that:
> 
> https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/20102/SmallInteger-digitAt-not-ready-for-64-bit-Some-Kernel-Tests-Numbers-fail-to-take-64-bit-into-account
> 
> https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/20108/CompiledMethod-isAbstract-fails-on-64-bit
> 
> https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/20111/Some-Collection-tests-fail-on-64-bit-because-they-assume-Floats-are-non-immediate
> 
> https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/20110/AllocationTest-testOutOfMemorySignal-not-well-suited-to-64-bit
> 
> The first one has a fix. Fixes must be done carefully, since the same image 
> must be able to run on both 32 and 64 bit.
> 
> 
> I also noticed that a couple of Compiler tests are failing. Now, obviously 
> the compiler works good enough since it can load code, so this is probably 
> also something minor/weird/unexpected. About 51 tests fail (in 
> MethodMapTests, OCBytecodeHGeneratorTest and 
> OCNewCompilerWithChangesFunctionalTests). Should I create an issue ?
> 
> Sven
> 
> 

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