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24.2; lexical binding breaks edebug conditional breakpoints

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Message #8 received at 12685 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Toby Cubitt <toby-dated-1351883876.27e47e <at> dr-qubit.org>
Cc: 12685 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12685: 24.2;
	lexical binding breaks edebug conditional breakpoints
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 17:41:49 -0400

> Conditional breakpoints whose condition refers to a lexically-scoped
> variable fail with a "Symbol's value as variable is void" error.
> This is almost certainly caused by the same issue as
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/150556

Indeed.

> The current behaviour definitely contradicts this. Not only does the
> breakpoint not work, the error is not "ignored and treated as if the
> result were nil", but instead aborts execution.

The fact that it aborts execution should be fixable before the release
(tho I'm not sure that it's really better to silently mis-interpret the
user's request), but making it actually work will require more
substantial changes, so I don't think it's likely to be fixed for 24.3.


        Stefan

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