New images up with fixes

[Bill Sun]

Good news and bad news.

Good news, I got pass the initial heap grow! Woohoo!

Bad news, "Attempted to grow heap beyond limits":

Slate: Growing heap to 4789200 bytes.
Performing post-bootstrap actions...
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You are in a twisty little maze of objects, all alike.
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Slate: Growing heap to 8983504 bytes.
Slate: Growing heap to 13177808 bytes.
Slate: Growing heap to 17372112 bytes.
Slate: Attempted to grow heap beyond limits

-Bill

--- Lee Salzman <lsalzman1 at cox.net> wrote:

> I do believe this was the problem. I uploaded new
> alpha VM/images that 
> should
> fix it, so try them out and let me know if it gets
> rid of the problem or 
> not.
> 
> Lee
> 
> Lee Salzman wrote:
> 
> > It's possible that some structure is the wrong
> size due to differences
> > in alignments on the platform. I would check that
> and see.
> >
> > Lee
> >
> > Lendvai Attila wrote:
> >
> >> :: This image set should have all the latest
> bug-fixes so /may/ :: 
> >> provide  :: some help to those experiencing the
> current problem on 
> >> Windows  :: (sorry, I don't have a definite fix
> yet until some 
> >> deeper  :: investigation is done by Windows users
> or myself if I can 
> >> get an  :: emulation or real XP installation
> going).
> >>
> >> I've added some output what messages are sent:
> >>
> >> Console
> >> atSlotNamed:
> >> write:to:from:startingAt:
> >> Bootstrapping libraries... (this may take a
> while. Save the image when
> >> done).
> >> ByteArray
> >> Slate: Growing heap to 4786844 bytes.
> >>
> >> This is not much...
> >>
> >> Then I stopped the process and it was looping in
> >> PSObjectHeap_findNextFree(), because the
> PSObject_totalSize() call
> >> returns zero for an object at address 4934080
> (heap starts at around
> >> 4300000). The object is a FormatObject type. Its
> map is at 0x004300a0
> >> (early on the heap...)
> >>
> >> So the hang is at the first time the gc is
> triggered and there's a zero
> >> sized object somewhere in the bootstrapped image.
> This is strange
> >> because it should be the same on unices, too.
> >>
> >> Novo, if you have any questions I'll be able to
> look at it early today
> >> your time, or at monday.
> >>
> >> - 101
> >>
> >>
> >>  
> >>
> >
> >
> 
> 


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