[slime-devel] Re: Confused Meta-Point

[Björn Lindberg]

Luke Gorrie <luke at synap.se> writes:

> d95-bli at nada.kth.se (Björn Lindberg) writes:
> 
> > I wonder if there is some way to reset the information that MP uses to
> > find definitions. Right now, I have a running image with a file which
> > I have done a lot of editing on, and although MP happily finds
> > definitions, it finds completely wrong ones.
> 
> Which Lisp?
> 
> CMUCL and SBCL use source-paths to find sources, but they can become
> stale if the file has been edited since compilation. The CMUCL backend
> does some special caching to reduce the number of bad cases (possibly
> introducing some other ones of course..)

Sorry, I forgot to mention that it is CMUCL.

> If you do `C-c C-k' to recompile the file then the source locations
> should become properly synchronized. With CMUCL this updates the cache
> and finding definitions should continue to work even after heavily
> hacking the source file.

Thanks, this worked perfectly.


Björn