Subject: Re: Vortex for VisualWorks 3.1
From: Craig Chambers (chambers@cs.washington.edu)
Date: Wed Apr 26 2000 - 14:11:51 PDT
We haven't done much development on the ParcPlace Smalltalk front-end in a
couple of years, so I'm somewhat rusty on the details.
There should be a directory in $VORTEX_HOME/Smalltalk/parcplace/prims that
contains the implementations of many primitives; at least all the ones we've
implemented for our benchmarks. (Note that we didn't implement many of the UI
functionality of Smalltalk.) The whole list of unimplemented primitives might
correspond to all these primitives. Or if your application calls a bunch of new
primitives, then you'll see this list of primitives reported. The README file
in $VORTEX_HOME/Smalltalk/parcplace explains this.
The translateToRTLIn:... error function is being called during translation of
your application? What is the receiver class? It could be a bug in the
front-end, or it could be that your application is straying into areas of
Smalltalk that we don't support.
-- Craig Chambers
"Dana S. Wheeler" wrote:
>
> I recently downloaded vortex 3.0 for the purpose of using it with
> ParcPlace/ObjectShare/Cincom VisualWorks 3.1. After a minor change to
> the installation method when I ran 'generate vortex application' on a
> class I got:
>
> translateToRTLIn: aState forMeta: isMeta returnVal: aBoolean
> withLIFOClosures: withLIFOClosures
> ^self error: 'This object is not implemented'
>
> and a whole list of unimplemented primitives. The primitives I had
> anticipated. If you could point me to a general description of how the
> smalltalk front-end classes fit together (I dread unraveling the code
> from scratch) I would like to try and finish it out for 3.1.
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Dana S. Wheeler
> dwheeler@gte.net
>
> Maintain a humble awe in all things of God and a cynical skepticism in all
> things of man.
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