[slime-devel] How to inspect locals

[Alexey Dejneka]

Hello,

Jonathon McKitrick <jcm at FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> writes:

> On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 05:11:51PM +0100, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
> : + Jonathon McKitrick <jcm at FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>:
> : 
> : | when running SBCL and a condition occurs that causes a break, how
> : | can I view the locals that have been bound in the function?
> : 
> : Place the cursor on the desired line in the backtrace and hit return.
>
> I thought only arguments to the function, not locals (let, m-v-b, etc) bound
> in the function would appear.  Am I wrong?

It depends on the compiler policy; SBCL records information on local
variables on (DEBUG 2) and higher. On the other hand, variables used
only once or not used at all are optimized away.

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Regards,
Alexey Dejneka

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