> On 2 Jun 2017, at 15:09, Marcus Denker <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> The first thing we need is an automatic test run for 64 bit…
> 
> https://ci.inria.fr/pharo/
> 
> has just 32bit (win, linux, mac). It needs to have 64bit, too.

Yes, of course we need that. But I am pretty sure that it won't even complete a 
whole test run without crashing.

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

If that is true, 64-bit is not a real release, but a preview/beta. 

Is that what we want ? 

It feels as if we are that too far off, but maybe Esteban is in a better 
position to comment.

>> 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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