On Aug 24, 2011, at 9:09 AM, Michael Roberts wrote: > Nicolas thanks! super you have even a few minutes. > > Even though Squeak has the problem, it is subtly different. I will > post my little scaffolding class maybe the end of this week which just > helps to slowly step a debugger through. And do this in different > images.
Ok I'm curious to know then. > What would be great, on a wiki page perhaps, is the list of important > classes that are involved in debugging. Then it makes it easier to > track changes (Debugger, InstructionStream and so on). It is also > somewhat educational, for me at least. > > The other thing, which is more tricky, is to know what are the > highlights we want? In VW i take it for granted it is correct, and > possibly in old Squeak images too. Can we document this? Perhaps a > start could be png files of "correct" highlights? Then we can build a > test framework that asserts these intervals we can work out (1 to: 3) > (34 to: 45) etc for given simulations of #send and #doStep. Any > thoughts on that appreciated. Perhaps this is not needed when we > finally figure out what is wrong. > > Also as mentioned in the original bug list, there are other bugs with > the debugger not just highlighting. Just wanted to say I wasn't > ignoring those... ;-) > > cheers, > Mike >
