[slime-devel] who-calls vs list-callers and calls-who vs list-callees

[Gary King]

FWIW, it sounds to me like a distinction made for different lisps;  
some have better support than others for this sort of thing, n'est pas?

On Sep 18, 2006, at 11:03 PM, Marco Baringer wrote:

>
> here's the docstring for list-callers:
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> List the callers of FUNCTION-NAME.
> This function is like WHO-CALLS except that it is expected to use
> lower-level means. Whereas WHO-CALLS is usually implemented with
> special compiler support, LIST-CALLERS is usually implemented by
> groveling for constants in function objects throughout the heap.
>
> The return value is as for WHO-CALLS.
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> anybody remember why we make this distinction?
>
> -- 
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