From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...>
Date: 2003-01-21T08:00:25+09:00
Subject: Re: nd_end and NODE_NEWLINE (fwd)


On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:
> At Mon, 20 Jan 2003 13:08:06 +0900,
> Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> > > |The other question is, what is the purpose of NODE_NEWLINE?
> > > Keep track of line number in the executing source file, for debugging
> > > and error reporting.
> > I thought that was node->flags >> 19 ??? Then why this duplication?
> Now line number is taken from there on demand, and NODE_NEWLINE
> is just used as a trigger to debuggers for stepping.

couldn't this work simply by having eval.c trigger a debugger event each
time it sees the line number change?

how much additional memory does that take? (and a much better
question: how much more garbage collection time does that take?)

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