On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 9:09 PM, 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.
>
> But I think we should not wait with the release for that.
>

In that case maybe we should call 64-bit a technology preview, and push for
an early point release that fully passes tests - maybe worth a sprint focus.
cheers -ben


>
> 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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