Re: Lisp debugger problems.

[Lute Kamstra <Lute.Kamstra.lists@xs4all.nl>]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>     IIRC defadvice has some support for such things (e.g. you can
>     add an advice even before the function is defined).  Maybe it'd
>     be a good idea to implement debug.el in terms of advice.
>
> Right now, the code to implement debug on entry is so simple that it
> would be a shame to use something as heavyweight as the advice
> mechanism.  However, if these new changes add a lot of complexity,
> maybe using the advice mechanism will become the simplest way.

What about advising the primitives that define functions to add
debug-entry-code when a function is in debug-function-list?  Would
that work?

Lute.