Re: Coral/Franz Extended Common Lisp PRESS RELEASE

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From: Dave Seaman
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1987 14:13

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In article <1189@mind.UUCP> eliot@mind.UUCP (Eliot Handleman) writes:
>I've been working with Franz Lisp on a Minivax 2 over the past year and
>I'm wondering if any other users have noted difficulties - or bugs -
>in the following not unsignificant areas:
>1. the debugger, when called in the break loop, doesn't access the stack
>   and so is entirely useless. 

I have noticed under 4.3bsd and predecessors that the Franz debugger seems
to lose track of the stack when it autoloads.  My solution has been to exit
the debugger and re-invoke the function that caused the error.  The
debugger works from then on.

>2. Similar problems with step.l, which doesn't do what the manual claims
>  it should, unless inserted in a fn def.

I don't use the stepper, but you might try the same technique on it.
-- 
Dave Seaman	  					
ags@j.cc.purdue.edu

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From: ags@j.cc.purdue.edu (Dave Seaman)
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Subject: Re: Coral/Franz Extended Common Lisp PRESS RELEASE
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