Void the instructionPointer systematically when creating a base frame #914
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Void the instructionPointer systematically when creating a base fame.
This stops stack manipulations during potential code compactions since we are creating a base frame, and the new page is not entirely initialized.
Callers must make sure that the instruction pointer is saved/stored in suspended frames.
This PR fixes a crash happening in an extreme case when:
See https://ci.inria.fr/pharo-ci-jenkins2/job/pharo-vm/job/pharo-12/64/pipeline-console/?selected-node=897
The stack trace for this case typically shows the following on a crash: