ObjectMemory class >> snapshot: should return an indicator
By Tony Garnock-Jones - Posted on January 8th, 2008
Tagged:
| Project: | GNU Smalltalk |
| Component: | Base classes |
| Category: | feature |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | fixed |
Description
ObjectMemory class >> snapshot: does not provide any way to determine whether, at the return from #snapshot:, we are running in
1. the parent, just after the save, or
2. the saved image, just after the load
A good solution to this would be to return some indicator of which image-instance we're running in from #snapshot:.
Given such an indicator, we could build a #snapshot:andQuit: message, a la Squeak, which would provide a convenient way of saving a snapshot and quitting, without having to jump through hoops on resume to determine which actions to take next.
Updates
#1 submitted by Tony Garnock-Jones on Tue, 01/08/2008 - 17:51
| Attachment: | issue-157.patch (978 bytes) |
Patch to make the #snapshot: primitive return false to the saving instance, and true when we're resuming from a saved image.
#2 submitted by Paolo Bonzini on Fri, 01/18/2008 - 08:03
| Status: | active | » fixed |
committed to master with some coding standards fixes.