Re: [Help-smalltalk] primitives

[Gwenael Casaccio]

On Tuesday 24 March 2009 16:16:01 you wrote:
> Gwenael Casaccio wrote:
> > On Tuesday 24 March 2009 16:02:57 you wrote:
> >> Gwenael Casaccio wrote:
> >>> Hi Paolo,
> >>>
> >>> Is it possible to call a primitive like this :
> >>>
> >>>   self callThisPrimitive: 'nameOfThePrimitive' withArgs: args.
> >>
> >> No, why do you need that?
> >>
> >> Paolo
> >
> > I'm working on a simulator (which can be used for the debugging tracing,
> > profiling, and for running old-squeak image, ...)
>
> Ah, I see.  No, there is nothing like that but it should not be hard to
> do it (mostly by copying the code of the #perform:withArguments:
> primitive).  One question is, what to do if the primitive fails?  You
> need a block for that, right?
>
> Still, I think that the single step mode already in the VM is going to
> be always faster than a simulator (and it would be usable for tracing
> and profiling).  Have you looked at DebugTools?
>
> Paolo

Thanks I'll look at the DebugTools. By the way I've a question in the 
ContextPart there is a byte code for the line of code Am I right ?
Do you store it as an interval for the position in the source code ? 

Gwenael