On Aug 18, 2011, at 10:51 PM, Eliot Miranda wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Stéphane Ducasse > <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks eliot > > BTW what is the future of alien compared to FFI. I'm still confused. > > I've answered this many times before. Alien is fine for data representation > and callbacks, but not for callouts (too simpleminded, works only on x86). > But I have integrated Alien with FFI and will not be developing Alien > callouts. Use FFI callouts instead.
But is FFI not good for representation and callbacks? My point is why having two systems each with a weak point (if FFI has weak points). I'm probably too stupid to understand so I will discuss with the guys here because I'm missing something. Stef > > > Stef (finished to paint house - well nearly finished before running to ESUG). > > On Aug 18, 2011, at 7:37 PM, Eliot Miranda wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > I've just published Alien-eem.14 to http://www.squeaksource.com/Alien. > > This fix needs to be integrated into each dialect's version of Alien. The > > bug causes VM crashes due to trying to free stale pointers from previous > > runs. > > > > Alien-eem.14 > > Author: eem > > Time: 18 August 2011, 10:34:20.024 am > > UUID: 39bedad1-6159-4ba4-be35-277df2a25977 > > Ancestors: Alien-eem.13 > > > > Fix startUp: discarding of stale values from Alien's GCMallocedAliens class > > var. > > > > -- > > best, > > Eliot > > > > > > > > -- > best, > Eliot >
