[slime-devel] How to support a new interpreter?

[Tobias C. Rittweiler]

Helmut Eller <heller at common-lisp.net> writes:

> I'm pretty sure that arguments and locals aren't there.  Well, maybe
> some JVMs include them, but java.lang.StackTraceElement has no methods
> to access them.  It must already be expensive to fill in the limited
> stacktrace that is present in Sun's JVM so maybe it would be possible to
> include them.

Yeah true, but it seems that Java additionally provides a rather
complete Debugger API which includes an ExceptionEvent that is invoked at
the place an exception is thrown, and where you can get at StackFrame
objects.

  -T.