Re: [Sbcl-devel] [Sbcl-commits] CVS: sbcl/src/compiler main.lisp, 1.146, 1.147

[Nikodemus S. <nik...@ra...>]

2009/12/16 Tobias Rittweiler <tri...@us...>:

>  * Errors signaled within an (EVAL-WHEN (:COMPILE-TOPLEVEL) ...),
>    i.e. during ``compile-time-too' processing, are now caught and
>    reported just like errors at macroexpansion time.
>
>    Previously, we landed in the debugger from within the compiler and
>    thus provided pretty much no information about the actual source
>    context to the user.
>
>    Now, we won't land in the debugger, and the appropriate source
>    context is reported along the error.

I'm not sure this is an improvement.

Personally, I suspect we should make it easier to get into debugger
for macroexpansion as well (setting *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* for a given
place in a large compilation is annoying -- and running with it all
the time is a no-go.)

Cheers,

 -- Nikodemus