As of September 14, 2006, these 7.4c engines are the most up-to-date engines for VisualWorks 7.x images. Version 7.4c engines are backward-compatible with 7.x images and are recommended.
The version 7.4c engines fix the following ARs in the vw7.4.1/vw7.4a and vw7.4b engines:
- 46964: Moving mouse speeds up thapi queries 30-fold on Linux MP.
- 50990: Moving low-level event dispatch from the VM up into the VI
- 50992: Wave Core parcel crashes engine upon load on 64 bit linux (VM)
- 50994: A remote Postgres connection makes the Linux VM run hot
- 51077: Fix to debug engine's interminable stream of "lost time signal in waitForIO"
- 51078: LAZY_UNLINKING regime fails to void cached MNU PICs
- 51081: crash in LESS application looks like a Visualworks bug
- 43106: Attempting to receive data on a SocketAccessor results in UHE: WSAECONNRESET under Windows 2000
- 51155: soft heap ulimit restricts memoryUpperBound on Solaris since 7.4
- 51174: 64-bit Linux hot hang in #waitNoButton
There is an associated image-level patch for AR 50992 that must be installed for 64-bit systems. File it into a 32-bit image prior to conversion to 64-bit. - 51076: Wave Core parcel crashes engine upon load on 64 bit linux (VI)
Use the following links to download the engine archives. Extract the archives under $(VISUALWORKS)/bin. The source for the vw7.4c engines is available to commercial customers on request. - IBM AIX 4.x (ftp, http)
- HP HPUX 11 (ftp, http)
- Linux x86 (ftp, http)
- Linux x86_64 (ftp, http)
- Linux PPC (ftp, http)
- Linux SPARC (ftp, http)
- Apple VM-MacOSX (ftp, http)
- Apple MacOSXX11 (ftp, http)
- Apple MacOSXx86X11 (ftp, http)
- SGI IRIX (ftp, http)
- Sun Solaris 2.x, 3.x (ftp, http)
- Sun Solaris64Bit (ftp, http)
- Sun SolarisX86 (ftp, http)
- Sun SolarisX86_64 (ftp, http)
- Windows WinCEARM (ftp, http)
- Windows WinCEx86 (ftp, http)
- Windows NT/2k/XP (ftp, http) Questions