How do I compile Maxima with debugging information?

Debugging tools in Allegro CL are described in
http://www.franz.com/support/documentation/6.2/doc/debugging.htm

I would be interested in an analysis of how this
differs from the current GCL or CMUCL or CLISP situation.

While I have used conceptual predecessors of gdb, I have not
used them extensively or recently. My impression is that they are
not really suited for a functional programming style.  Of course
you can do almost anything in a low level debugger if you try
hard enough. (I think that on the ITS system the debugger and the
assembler were essentially the same program.)

RJF


Camm Maguire wrote:

>Greetings!  I'm also interested in debugging facilities for lisp, and
>would like to make the GCL debugger more useful.
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>Could you elaborate on what features you find useful in ACL which are
>missing from GCL?
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>Though I haven't researched the lisp options extensively, its hard to
>conceive of a better debugger than gdb.  And fortunately, as GCL
>compiles to C, we may be able to design a lisp front end to gdb in
>analogy with its fortran front end.
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>Take care,
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>Richard Fateman <fateman@cs.berkeley.edu> writes:
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>>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.
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>>  The commercial macsyma debugging
>>tools seem to be fairly poor, though it could be that
>>I just don't have any documentation!!
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>>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.
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>>I do not have much experience with CMUCL, except I
>>recall that the CMUCL compiler was slow and verbose,
>>but produced good code.
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>>I have not used CLISP.
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>>RJF
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