GNU bug report logs - #6991
Please keep bytecode out of *Backtrace* buffers

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From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net, lekktu <at> gmail.com, johnw <at> gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, 6991 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, larsi <at> gnus.org
Subject: bug#6991: Please keep bytecode out of *Backtrace* buffers
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2016 12:08:02 -0500

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Showing the byte-compiled code is not very useful.

Perhaps it would be good to make the byte-compiled function have the
name of the function it was compiled from as one of its elements.
We could make princ output  <byte-compiled FUNNAME ARGLIST ADDRESS>
while not changing what prin1 outputs.

Then the debugger could use princ for byte-compiled functions,
and provide some commmand to access the actual function object to examine it.

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