slate-0.3.tgz works fine on Windows

[Paul Dufresne]

I did read in the logs that, since the patch for VC++ didn't work it was 
removed from
CVS. But I am confused as if the files in alpha still contains it.

Anyway, so I decided to give a test on slate-0.3.tgz, just to be sure it is 
fine.
And indeed it appears to be fine.

I:
-decompressed slate-0.3.tgz in C:\
-Run Dev-C++ (Bloodshed with MINGW compiler) and created a project in 
c:\slate-0.3
containing only vm.c file, and modified project options to use the Makefile 
that was there
-run "vm.exe little.image"
-"load: tests/init.slate'."
-"testing runAllTests." and saw that all tests passed
-"load: 'src/mobius/init.slate'."
-"VM generateVM: 'alloha'.
-"VM buildImage: 'polo.image' &littleEndian: True."
-"quit."
-build a new project with alloha.c and the Makefile
-rebuilt all
-"vm.exe polo.image"
-"load: tests/init.slate'."
-"testing runAllTests." and saw that all tests passed

Also, I tested that VC could compiled (and later run) vm.c by surronding 
primitive33 by #pragmas:
#pragma optimize ("g",off)
void _primitive33(struct Interpreter * interpreter, ObjectPointer * 
arguments, unsigned long int argumentsSize, struct OopArray * optionals)
{
  ObjectPointer y;
  ObjectPointer x;

  x = arguments[0];
  y = arguments[1];
  PSInterpreter_stackPush_(interpreter, ObjectPointer_asSmallInt(x) < 
ObjectPointer_asSmallInt(y)?CurrentMemory->TrueObject:CurrentMemory->FalseObject);
}
#pragma optimize ("g",on)

So all seems fine with slate-0.3.tgz.
Hope this is a usefull info (somehow telling that things don't works seems 
more usefull) :-)

--Paul

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