Re: [Factor-talk] Any way of making sense of what's in the boot image?

2012-08-08 Thread Michael Clagett
Hi Joe -- Thank you so much for your guidance. I'm assuming that it is the basis\bootstrap\image\image.factor and the core\bootstrap\primitives.factor, stage1.factor and syntax.factor that you are referring to? One question just to help me get oriented before I go into heavy head-twisting mode

Re: [Factor-talk] Any way of making sense of what's in the boot image?

2012-08-08 Thread Joe Groff
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 8:23 PM, Joe Groff wrote: > > The code in the bootstrap.image module outputs the bootstrap image as > a binary blob. You can get a sense for the format of the bootstrap > image and its contents by looking at that module. To clarify, by "output as a binary blob" I mean the c

Re: [Factor-talk] Any way of making sense of what's in the boot image?

2012-08-08 Thread Joe Groff
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Michael Clagett wrote: > Hi -- > > I've been tracing through the initial vm initialization code trying to get a > picture of how Factor bootstraps itself. Does anyone know if there is a way > to resolve code in the initial boot image that is being jit-compiled by >

[Factor-talk] Any way of making sense of what's in the boot image?

2012-08-08 Thread Michael Clagett
Hi -- I've been tracing through the initial vm initialization code trying to get a picture of how Factor bootstraps itself. Does anyone know if there is a way to resolve code in the initial boot image that is being jit-compiled by factor_vm::prepare_boot_image to a set of symbolic names that c