Re: Native compilation on MPS branch

[Andrea Corallo <acorallo@gnu.org>]

Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com> writes:

> Andrea Corallo <acorallo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Agree, the trick I shared actually covers for me the vast majority of
>> the cases I'd use rr for :)
>
> BTW, maybe it's not obvious why I didn't use watchpoints so far...
>
> My theory ATM is that this is a caused by a reference that escapes my
> scanning/fixing because I don't know it exists. The reference therefore
> does not notice what is happening around it and that the object it
> pointed to has moved.
>
> So, the problem is that something _doesn't_ change, which is kind of
> hard to watch.

I see, if you see is necessary we can try with a simpler case before
full native bootstrap, like a non native build but with native-comp
support.  Than we can compile a single file and load it.

PS I'm trying to compile the branch to give it a try :)