How do I compile Maxima with debugging information?
Subject: How do I compile Maxima with debugging information?
From: Richard Fateman
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 08:54:30 -0700
by the way... the debugging tools vary depending upon
the underlying lisp. They are not part of the ANSI
standard. There is no requirement that local variables
be accessible in a break. In fact they may not exist
if the system always compiles functions and removed the
variables by optimization.
The commercial macsyma debugging
tools seem to be fairly poor, though it could be that
I just don't have any documentation!!
My recollection of the AKCL system (now GCL) was that
the debugging tools were also fairly limited, at least
compared to Allegro CL, which I generally use.
I do not have much experience with CMUCL, except I
recall that the CMUCL compiler was slow and verbose,
but produced good code.
I have not used CLISP.
RJF