GNU Smalltalk 2.3.4 close to release

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Thanks, I'll try to reproduce the failures on Debian G4.

Paolo


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Paolo Bonzini wrote:
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> Thanks, I'll try to reproduce the failures on Debian
G4.

Actually it does not depend on the OS, but rather on the
availability of 
GMP.  It is a stupid off-by-one error in LargeInteger
division.  When 
the result of the division has a number >=128 in its MSB,
the result is 
turned into a negative number.

The easiest fix is to allocate an extra byte for the result,
since 
#primDivide: is supposed to run on positive numbers only.

Paolo

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