From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Neil Jerram" Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: vm branch now uses vm repl by default Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:24:31 +0200 Message-ID: <49dd78620809101424i7ce7ecc1ybede14444d892a78@mail.gmail.com> References: <49dd78620809091543j2a811a01lffe13d9be3c6ee7d@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1221081892 31692 80.91.229.12 (10 Sep 2008 21:24:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:24:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel To: "Andy Wingo" Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 10 23:25:48 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KdXC8-0007vB-1W for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:25:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36711 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KdXB7-0004J9-Ia for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:24:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KdXAz-0004IL-Hb for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:24:37 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KdXAy-0004HY-U3 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:24:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42562 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KdXAy-0004HV-MF for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:24:36 -0400 Original-Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.198.240]:50654) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KdXAy-0005bx-Fp for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:24:36 -0400 Original-Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id k29so41684rvb.6 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:24:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=U0eiuLFKIiD6gND5d0rZukQIBWzPCU2WZqUdThhWo9o=; b=gs7RvyVhQJQiBgtFfbiW8ELolCUTy80EpPFrKFDWD+DTRvKEV89ALT7FURkbISJ4zY j5UHLDNz3HJq+22C+yjmLFffYj8hH8OzwDD7wDcrAjh+faMTtMMSqZ3I/eNL49olij7x 2rJvQjvyifu456C3ay7YYAb2hijrR7eZWqGxk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=AgWCcLtqupo0t+DQaYhK2XpB4X5phxO5/pQpRcb4f20knZoTbOMmg5e/MJy3hPr7eJ jVUH+sV6P2ev6gCNYKdUeQ/Y/vUMVgg7irub1Mhs96ca7Xgcc1y3A9V8LZPW/Z6wVdCz xjj9I1e07hHQLxtu3pLtNvnPRVdzlI6oGcB8E= Original-Received: by 10.141.116.16 with SMTP id t16mr1131061rvm.280.1221081871996; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:24:31 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.141.177.4 with HTTP; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:24:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:7665 Archived-At: 2008/9/10 Andy Wingo : > > Oh it has some. Here are the hooks: > > vm-next-hook vm-apply-hook vm-boot-hook vm-return-hook > vm-break-hook vm-exit-hook vm-halt-hook vm-enter-hook > > They sound sufficient, but perhaps more could be added. Unless I > misunderstand what the traps do (which is likely). No, I agree that those sound sufficient. > Certainly we do for debugging the VM itself. But besides that, if the VM > will be the way that people will want to run their programs, they need > good backtraces at the very least. Yes, of course, silly me. (I was thinking too much about breakpoints and single-stepping, forgot about the basic error case.) Regards, Neil