we still should integrate your changes but they require momentum and 
concentration which we do not have.
Stefan if you want to help you are welcome

http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=2897

Stef

On Sep 29, 2010, at 7:49 PM, 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
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