[Openmcl-devel] Debugging - beginner's question

[Greg Pfeil]

On 1 Nov 2009, at 17:47, Philippe Sismondi wrote:

> It appears to me that the ccl debugger has limited knowledge of the
> source code. Is that right or have I missed something in the
> documentation?
>
> That is, being new to CL I am still used to (and expecting, I guess)  
> C-
> style symbolic debugging. In such environments the source code line
> (or form) would be identified as the offending party when an error
> occurs.
>
> Does this exist in ccl? Does the compiler even preserve such
> information? I am still using slime+emacs, so maybe I should be
> looking in the IDE for this.

http://common-lisp.net/project/slime/doc/html/Debugger.html

Typing 'v' in the SLDB frame should take you to the appropriate form.