interpreting Core Erlang

[Richard Carlsson]

On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Luke Gorrie wrote:

> Richard Carlsson <richardc@REDACTED> writes:
>
> > if you'd make the effort to rewrite the debugger, it would be better
> > to have it work directly on Beam code, with mappings from program
> > points to source code lines, etc.
>
> And Beam code doesn't include any mapping information like that today,
> right?

Nope. All line numbers are embedded in the debug-info syntax tree.

> > In the shell, you'd still have to go through pretty much the same
> > motions anyway in order to first translate the code to Core Erlang and
> > then interpret that. So it doesn't really make anything simpler.
>
> Could you use the first few passes of the compiler for this?

Yes. Though you might need to do some trickery if you want to
translate a single function rather than a whole module at a time.

	/R


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