On 13 March 2011 02:17, Toon Verwaest <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm working on extracting everything to a model. DebuggerMethodMap is a mess
> so we'll also have our own version of that class. Other methods that I found
> too messy are rewritten in the model.
>
> Still work to be done, and Cog for linux doesn't like me committing code to
> MC (it just crashes when I click save); so ... But it'll get there ;) Most
> of the functionality is already there.

You can use Stack interpreter VM
https://pharo-ic.lille.inria.fr/hudson/view/Cog/job/Stack%20VM%20Unix/

which can open images saved by JIT-based one, and see if it can do
things which leading to crash under JIT.

>
> Making it all remote shouldn't be too much of a problem. The debugger just
> relies on the debugger model and a list of objects that represent the stack.
> All actual evaluating actions can easily be forwarded over a proxy to the
> remote model.
>
> cheers,
> Toon
>
> On 03/13/2011 01:31 AM, Igor Stasenko wrote:
>>
>> On 2 March 2011 20:56, Adrian Lienhard<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mar 2, 2011, at 20:33 , Luc Fabresse wrote:
>>>
>>>>> - Adrian, Jorge and Toon worked on implementing a Debugger on top of
>>>>> Glamour. They got a first version working that is able to do basic
>>>>> actions:
>>>>> step, restart, step into. The challenge was to get to understand the
>>>>> model,
>>>>> and to figure out that<primitive: 19>  is used for marking that a
>>>>> method
>>>>> should not be debugged. In any case, working with Glamour seemed to
>>>>> work
>>>>> quite smoothly. The code is available in the Glamorous Toolkit. Adrian,
>>>>> did
>>>>> I get it right? :)
>>>>>
>>>> Nick in CC worked a lot to understand the model part of the Debugger.
>>>> He has worked on a remote debugger.
>>>> @Nick, you should have a look probably at this implementation of a
>>>> debugger
>>>> in Glamour.
>>>> AFAICR the Debugger code really mixes the model, the GUI, the Debugees,
>>>> ...
>>>> so perhaps you can all join forces and propose a cleaner and extensible
>>>> debugger ;-)
>>>
>>> Indeed, an independent model would make a lot of sense. Since the
>>> original logic is mixed with the GUI code, we just copied parts of it over
>>> to our new prototype. By factoring this out into an independent model we
>>> would not end up multiple copies for the original debugger, the Glomour
>>> debugger, the OB debugger, the remote debugger etc.
>>>
>> even if you copy it, we still badly need remote tools. :)
>> Because we really cannot rely on having RFB installed on every
>> headless image. It could be much more nicer and sexier
>> to have small kernel image with small dispatcher to which you can
>> connect  and communicate with image remotely,
>> without need of carrying Morphic blob inside it.
>
>
>



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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.

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