From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: debug-on-entry Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 12:33:07 -0400 Message-ID: <87k6kz8rjj.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> References: <200506110344.j5B3ivw05989@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <87zmtxv0j2.fsf@xs4all.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1118595857 20845 80.91.229.2 (12 Jun 2005 17:04:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 17:04:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Luc Teirlinck , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 12 19:04:14 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DhVqI-0000Zu-KG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 19:01:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DhVuv-0005h1-8O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 13:06:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DhVsY-0003my-P5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 13:04:11 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DhVsW-0003lS-H1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 13:04:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DhVsV-0003hQ-28 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 13:04:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [209.226.175.54] (helo=tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DhVoC-00088T-JF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 12:59:40 -0400 Original-Received: from alfajor ([70.48.82.205]) by tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with ESMTP id <20050612165846.WYWX26102.tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net@alfajor>; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 12:58:46 -0400 Original-Received: by alfajor (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E59E3D73D3; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 12:33:07 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: Lute Kamstra In-Reply-To: <87zmtxv0j2.fsf@xs4all.nl> (Lute Kamstra's message of "Sat, 11 Jun 2005 09:02:41 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:38651 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:38651 > You can use debug-on-entry for primitive functions that are not > specials forms. You just can't step through them. I'll fix the > docs. Also they may be called without triggering the debugger, if they're called directly from C rather than from elisp. I.e. it's unreliable (but can still be useful, I guess). Stefan