yet more -v stuff
Stephen Weeks
MLton@sourcelight.com
Sat, 6 Jan 2001 13:54:48 -0800 (PST)
> That's a reasonable solution. I guess it depends whether not the info
> is really useful. Once you recognize which GC_gc call is being invoked,
> is it really reasonable to trace it back to some particular part of the
> source program? I suspect this was difficult with the C backend; it would
> be more so with the x86 backend.
It wasn't difficult with the C backend. The line number was the line of a GC_gc
in the generated C file. This was useful for finding backend and gc bugs,
especially when doing things like GC_EVERY_CHECK, because I could see what code
was being executed just before the GC.