README
author Jan Vrany <jan.vrany@fit.cvut.cz>
Tue, 15 Sep 2015 05:30:02 +0100
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FFI: Make FFI call return nil when C function returns NULL Before when a C function returned NULL pointer, an ExternalAddress with address 0 wes returned which required an extra check in a caller to convert it to nil, which would be the customary. This commit automatically converts NULL pointers to Smalltalk `nil` as a courtesy to a Smalltalker.
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This directory contains (what we consider) fundamental
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classes required for any serious Smalltalk application
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(both headless and GUI-based).
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Of course, for special applications, even this set of
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classes could be reduced 
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(for smaller apps, some of LargeInteger, Float, Fraction 
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 etc. could be left out).
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We do not provide tools or support for such minimal 
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configurations - with modern, paged OperatingSystems, there
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is also less sense in doing so, since unused code is simply
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paged out or never paged in at all.