I'll note the most modern squeak VM's return wordSize, this might be  
helpful somewhere.

wordSize
        "Answer the size (in bytes) of an object pointer."
        "Smalltalk wordSize"

        ^[SmalltalkImage current vmParameterAt: 40] on: Error do: [4]


On 2009-09-22, at 4:16 PM, Ken Treis wrote:

> Eliot, Johan, Fernando, et. al.:
>
> On Sep 16, 2009, at 3:09 PM, Eliot Miranda wrote:
>
>> Hi Ken,
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Ken Treis <[email protected]>  
>> wrote:
>> Perhaps there would need to be new primitives for the basic size of  
>> each relevant C type? I'm anxious to hear what Eliot might have to  
>> say about this since he's got about 2000x more experience with this  
>> than I do.

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