[slime-devel] Patch for stepper support in SBCL and (sort of) CLISP

[Svein Ove Aas]

One patch, one new file.

The stepper works in SBCL, and should be fairly self-explanatory. C-s
to toggle stepping, c to step inwards and x to quit stepping but keep
running. You need to compile with high debug quality.

One gotcha: Slime will only display the source correctly if you
compile the entire file with C-c C-k.


The same works in CLISP, but only for uncompiled code, and you won't
see your location. Fix the sldb view-source command, and it'll work.

OpenMCL and CMUCL appear to have broken step implementations; if these
work for anyone, please contact me so I can write backends.



Finally, while working on this I had some ideas about improving other
parts of Slime, and I've left commented-out code for this in at least
one place.

When the debugger pops up, we might want to (a) skip "internal" frames
such as break    when positioning the cursor, and (b) attempt to view
the source for the resulting frame    automatically. There is very
little work left to do this, but is it a good idea?

Also, the way the stepper currently works there are (at least in
clisp) a couple of stepper-internal frames *between* those belonging
to the user. Would filtering out those be okay?
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