Hi Eliot:

I had tried Squeak 4.1 before, also updated, but same result.

However, after your mail I tried an updated Squeak 4.2 alpha 
(http://ftp.squeak.org/trunk/Squeak4.2-10382-alpha.zip) and here it works.

Thanks for the hint.

Best regards
Stefan


On 29 Sep 2010, at 19:48, Eliot Miranda wrote:

> Hi Stefan,
> 
>    this sounds a lot like an issue that bit someone in squeak 4.x recently 
> and was due to a bytecode compiler bug that I fixed.  I can't find or 
> remember the email associated with this, so if anyone does remember please 
> speak up.  Stefan, you might try running this in an updated squeak 4.1 image 
> and compare the bytecodes.  If you get different bytecodes then we need to 
> port the compiler fixes from 4.1 trunk to Pharo.
> 
> HTH
> Eliot
> 
> 
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Stefan Marr <[email protected]> wrote:
> Further testing reveals a strange behavior in the debugger.
> So, I am not sure where the problem is actually caused.
> 
> I added a new local variable block to the method.
> block gets assigned aBlock (the parameter).
> 
> If I executed Erlang spawn: [Transcript show: 'foo'], the '1 halt.' is 
> executed as I mentioned before.
> However, the debugger does not allow me to access aBlock, there is a 
> subscript out of bound exception.
> Interestingly, 'block' is accessible without error.
> 
> 
> If I now actually use 'block' instead of 'aBlock' in the executed block, then 
> phenomena is reversed.
> Thus, the variable which is actually referenced in the code is not accessible 
> anymore but gets somehow lost. They also get lost if I use both.
> 
> 
> I would still like to understand what is going on here.
> So any remarks are welcome.
> 
> Thanks
> Stefan
> 
> 
> 
> 
> spawn: aBlock
>       "Answer an ErlProcess running the code given in the parameter. The 
> process isscheduled."
>       | proc block |
>       <primitive: 19> "Simulation guard"
>       block := aBlock.
>       proc := Process
>               forContext:
>                       [1 halt. aBlock value.
>                        Processor terminateActive] asContext
>               priority: Processor activePriority.
>       proc resume.
>       ^ proc
> 
> 
> 
> On 29 Sep 2010, at 11:21, Stefan Marr wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 29 Sep 2010, at 11:01, Igor Stasenko wrote:
>> 
>>> On 29 September 2010 11:11, Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>>> no idea but I want to know that too so keep us posted.
>>>> 
>>> Smalltalk specialObjectsArray at: 28.
>>> Thats it, Process is a special object, recognized by VM.
>>> No other Process (sub)classes can be accepted by it.
>> Could you elaborate on that? No other process can be accepted for what?
>> Being scheduled, or being executed?
>> 
>> There is also a comment in the comment of Process which suggests that it 
>> should be possible:
>> "(If anyone ever makes a subclass of Process, be sure to use allSubInstances 
>> in anyProcessesAbove:.)"
>> But even after making the change, that does not seem to be the actual 
>> problem.
>> 
>> 
>> The process gets execute fine. With a '1 halt.' as the first statement of 
>> the aBlock block I even get a debugger. It only fails on accessing variables 
>> referenced by the closure with an index out of bound error or something 
>> similar.
>> 
>>>> Erlang>>spawn: aBlock
>>>>     "Answer an ErlProcess running the code given in the parameter.
>>>>       The process is scheduled."
>>>>     | proc |
>>>>     proc := ErlProcess
>>>>             forContext:
>>>>                     [1 halt. aBlock value.
>>>>                      Processor terminateActive] asContext
>>>>             priority: Processor activePriority.
>>>>     proc resume.
>>>>     ^ proc
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks and best regards
>> Stefan
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Stefan Marr
>> Software Languages Lab
>> Vrije Universiteit Brussel
>> Pleinlaan 2 / B-1050 Brussels / Belgium
>> http://soft.vub.ac.be/~smarr
>> Phone: +32 2 629 2974
>> Fax:   +32 2 629 3525
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Stefan Marr
Software Languages Lab
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Pleinlaan 2 / B-1050 Brussels / Belgium
http://soft.vub.ac.be/~smarr
Phone: +32 2 629 2974
Fax:   +32 2 629 3525

-- 
Stefan Marr
Software Languages Lab
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Pleinlaan 2 / B-1050 Brussels / Belgium
http://soft.vub.ac.be/~smarr
Phone: +32 2 629 2974
Fax:   +32 2 629 3525


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