Temporarily I find it useful to forward Object>>#clone to invoke shallowCopy, 
as there are many other methods in some package including KlattSynthesizer.. 
That call this method

Sudhakar krishnamachari

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On Dec 29, 2011, at 7:21 PM, Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]> wrote:

> Can you try simply removing the method?
> 
> Stef
> On Dec 29, 2011, at 12:29 PM, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 12:23 AM, ncalexan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>> 
>> Long-time reader, first-time poster.
>> 
>> Hi and welcome :)
>> 
>> Is FFI fully supported on Pharo?  I
>> installed into the 1.3 OneClick using
>> 
>> Gofer new
>>   squeaksource: 'MetacelloRepository';
>>   package: 'ConfigurationOfFFI';
>>   load.
>> 
>> ConfigurationOfFFI load.
>> 
>> All seems fine but
>> 
>> ExternalAddress gcallocate: 128
>> 
>> fails in ExternalAddress>>shallowCopy, complaining that clone is not
>> understood.
>> 
>> Bug?  Not supported?  Misused?
>> 
>> 
>> Indeed, it looks like a bug at least for pharo (where #clone was removed)
>> 
>> ExternalAddress >> shallowCopy
>>    "Re-implemented to avoid superclass call to #new:"
>>    ^self clone
>> 
>> But now sure what to replace it with. The method #clone used to be just the 
>> call to primitive 148, which is the same as shallowCopy. So I don't 
>> understand why we need to reimplement shallowCopy in ExternalAddress. 
>>    "Re-implemented to avoid superclass call to #new:"    since shallowCopy 
>> is a primitive, it would only send a message (like #new:) only if the 
>> primitive fails.  So..I am lost. 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Best,
>> Nick Alexander
>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Mariano
>> http://marianopeck.wordpress.com
>> 
> 
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