>
> my work environment is using RedHat6/CentOS6 with glibc 2.12
>

That's seven years of unpatched security vulnerabilities! Are you sure you
really want to stay at such great risk?


On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 8:30 AM, Andreas Sunardi <a.suna...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> That sounds good. Unfortunately for me, my work environment is using
> RedHat6/CentOS6 with glibc 2.12. Is there Pharo6 with glibc < 2.15 support.
> Or is there a way for me to build that myself?
>
> It's quite a departure to change my DSL into defining multiple methods.
> But that's my own problem.
>
> I'm happy to hear Pharo 6 can support a lot more literals. I tested my
> code on Pharo 6 (on my Windows box) and it works. I see SistaV1 compiler in
> Pharo 5 setting, but that causes Pharo to crash.
>
> Thank you guys for your answers. I think I have the information I need to
> make decision. But if there is a way to get Pharo 6 that works with glibc <
> 2.15, please let me know.
>
> Thank you
> --
> Andreas
>
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 12:34 AM, Clément Bera <bera.clem...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> If your tool works in Pharo 6, you can use the other bytecode set which
>> supports up to 32k literals. To do so, go to:
>> World Menu > Settings > Compiler > Encoder
>> and pick SistaV1 instead of V3PlusClosures
>> Try to load your code. The default Pharo 6 VM supports both bytecode sets.
>>
>> Alternatively you need to split your methods with many literals in
>> multiple methods with less literals, which is usually quite tricky to do
>> right.
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 4:52 AM, Andreas Sunardi <a.suna...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I have written a tool (Pharo5) where user gives an input file to it,
>>> where the content is a smalltalk code, a DSL. I used a subclass of
>>> CodeImporter class to evaluate this input file.
>>>
>>> Recently my user used an input file where it hit the 256 literal limit
>>> (total of unique string, number, method name, etc), down in
>>> OpalEncoderForV3PlusClosures >> genPushLiteral:. The number seems to be
>>> hard coded and related to byte code generator, not something I can simply
>>> increase. I wasn't aware of this limitation.
>>>
>>> Before I overhaul my tool, I thought I should ask. Is there another
>>> alternative to evaluate a smalltalk file/script? The file is small, 27k,
>>> but the number of unique literals in it is > 256. Is it possible at all,
>>> seeing that the limit is related to byte code generator.
>>>
>>> Thank you in advance
>>> --
>>> Andreas Sunardi
>>>
>>
>>
>

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