On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 12:10 AM, Marcus Denker <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Sep 5, 2011, at 2:06 PM, Nicolas Cellier wrote:
>>
>> By the way, I would find it cool to have an optional byteCode view
>> parallel to source code view and see the execution of byte codes, and
>> why not, a view of Context stack frames.
>> Also, the debugger might step message by message (AST-based) rather
>> than byteCode by byteCode, is this what you mean by wrong abstraction
>> level ?
>>
> With the wrong abstraction level: Why do we care about stepping bytecodes
> at all? Why not only have an AST interpreter based debugger?

Because the debugger might be looking at bytecodes that were generated
by something other than a Smalltalk compiler.

Michael.


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