> On 21 Mar 2019, at 13:46, Tim Mackinnon <[email protected]> wrote:
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> That is awesome - great work chasing all of that!
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> Any idea of what kinds of things would have been impacted that we can all
> keep an eye out for or retest?
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> Also, Is there anything useful we can add to our process to try and avoid
> this in the future?
tests :)
tests are the only way.
>> On 21 Mar 2019, at 07:00, Stephan Eggermont <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Yesterday, we tracked down a serious issue in 64 bit FFI. After giving up
>> with our own code, we made a fresh start with the latest base image and
>> OSWindows. We were finally able to figure out what went wrong with two
>> simple tests that were failing in 64 bit that worked correctly in 32 bit.
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>> FFIConstantHandleType externalType is the wrong size
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>> After confirming that and making it work, we were told that a number of FFI
>> fixes were done by Nicolas and Eliot in Squeak that did not get integrated
>> in Pharo. Applying the changes from the latest Squeak FFI resolved the
>> problem, and a few that we were unaware of.
>>
>> Stephan
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