[Cuis-dev] Curious bug

Luciano Notarfrancesco luchiano at gmail.com
Tue Jun 23 06:58:39 PDT 2020


Sorry, should be whileTrue there...

On Tue, 23 Jun 2020 at 8:57 PM, Luciano Notarfrancesco <luchiano at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Try this in a workspace:
>
> [a _ (1 << 60) atRandom.
> b _ (a bitReverse: 64) bitReverse: 64.
> a = b] whileFalse
>
> I tested it in the latest image with a recent cog spur x64 VM. The loop
> stops with a ‘b’ that is a LargePositiveInteger but it actually fits in a
> SmallInteger and it is equal to ‘a’. I don’t have time to debug it until
> the weekend but I thought someone might find it amusing.
>
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