Oct. 14, 2005
12:43 a.m.
Jeremy Hylton wrote:
Some of the finer points of generating the line number table (lnotab) are wrong. There is some very delicate code to support single stepping with the debugger.
With disk and memory sizes being what they are nowadays, is it still worth making heroic efforts to compress the lnotab table? How about getting rid of all the delicate code and replacing it with something much simpler? -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of Canterbury, | A citizen of NewZealandCorp, a | Christchurch, New Zealand | wholly-owned subsidiary of USA Inc. | greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz +--------------------------------------+