Re: Guile 2.2 TODO

[Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>]

Hi,

On Sun 01 Sep 2013 13:03, Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> writes:

> * Source information.
>
> The plan here would be to use DWARF.  We don't use DWARF yet, so there
> are a few parts of this.
>
>   - Add a DWARF parser; see the wip-dwarf branch for that.  
>
>   - Emit debugging info entries (DIEs) for each function in a
>     compilation unit, into the .debug_info section.  Initially they
>     would be minimal, just having the function's address and maybe its
>     name.
>
>   - Add machinery to (system vm debug) to get a DIE for a procedure, if
>     it is present.
>
>   - Add a macro-instruction to the assembler that records source
>     location info.  Have the assembler collect this info.
>
>   - Have the assembler write out source location info into a .debug_line
>     section, and link the DIE to that info.
>
>   - Add an appropriate interface to (system vm debug) to parse out line
>     number information.  Perhaps model this interface on what is already
>     in (system vm program).
>
>   - Shim the existing (system vm program) interfaces to call the new
>     (system vm debug) interfaces for RTL programs.

Done!  Woo hoo :)

> * Local variable information.

Still to do, will put off until later.

> * Replace bytecode trampolines with RTL trampolines.
> * Prompt, abort, and call/cc.
> * Compiling all of Guile to RTL.

These are next.

Andy
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