[Openmcl-devel] debugger internals

[Marco Baringer]

i'm trying to get the slime commands return-from-frame and 
restart-frame to work and i'm not understanding certain things about 
openmcl's debugger.

1) does anybody set *backtrace-dialogs*? (to my eyes it seems that 
unless someone somewhere sets this apply-in-nth-frame will never do 
anything)

2) is the return value of ccl::%current-frame-ptr a valid value for 
FRAME in the various apply-in-frame, return-from-frame, etc. functions?

3) if so, what needs to be done to make a frame restartable?

4) how should i prepare the arguments for apply-in-frame? in other 
words, what functions do i need to call in order to be able to get a 
valid frame, fn, arglist values for that call? i'm assuming frame 
should be a value returned by %get-frame-ptr (or maybe 
%current-frame-ptr), fn can just be a regular function object, and 
arglist should be a list, however under these assumptions i get an 
error about ppc::opcode being on unknown type specifier (backtrace 
follows).

Unknown type specifier: PPC::OPCODE
    [Condition of type SIMPLE-ERROR]

Restarts:
   0: [ABORT] Return to sldb level 1.
   1: [ABORT] Return to SLIME toplevel.
   2: [ABORT-BREAK] #<RESTART ABORT-BREAK #x561E0E>

Backtrace:
   0: (CCL::%%TYPEP)
   1: (TYPEP #<OPCODE TWNEI> NIL)
   2: (CCL::CATEGORIZE-INSTRUCTION)
   3: (CCL::COLLECT-BRANCH-TREE #<DLL-HEADER #x545460E> #<HASH-TABLE 
:TEST EQL size 1/60 #x546B636>)
   4: (CCL::DLL-TO-BRANCH-TREE #<DLL-HEADER #x545460E>)
   5: (CCL::GET-BRANCH-TREE)
   6: (CCL::ACTIVE-TSP-COUNT 44)
   7: (CCL::%APPLY-IN-FRAME -65534228 #<Compiled-function VALUES 
#x500337E> (4) #(#<CATCH-FRAME #x561AB6> 1262481 1262475 1262474 
1262473 1262466 1262465 NIL NIL))
   8: (SWANK::MAP-BACKTRACE #<COMPILED-LEXICAL-CLOSURE #x5454646> 0 
536870911)

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