As of October 26, 2006, these 7.4d engines are the most up-to-date engines for VisualWorks 7.x images. Version 7.4d engines are backward-compatible with 7.x images and are recommended.
The following ARs are fixed in the 7.4d engines:
- 50949: Launching an image gives write permission to it
- 51236: Bus Error when VI is reading/accepting socket data on intel macosx engine
- 51239: Sentinel in win vm's io semaphore array's free list is wrong.
- 51255: Windows socket performance 100 times worse if background processes are running
- 51316: description of primitive 390 for OS8
- 51328: 51077 introduced a bug on Solaris causing lost delays when moving windows
- 51330: Revert to VC++ v6
- 51359: StrAllocate needs an OE function for fixed space
- 51363: ZLib code fails to export all functions in the zlib interface.
The following ARs were fixed in the preceding 7.4c 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 engines. - 51076: Wave Core parcel crashes engine upon load on 64 bit linux (VI)
Use the following links to download the 7.4d engine archives. Extract the archives under $(VISUALWORKS)/bin. The source for the vw7.4d engines is available to commercial customers on request. Contact VisualWorks technical support. - 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)
- Apple Powermac (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 98/ME/NT/2k/XP (ftp, http) Questions