GNU bug report logs - #7825
Cannot return from the debugger

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Message #14 received at 7825 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Štěpán Němec <stepnem <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 7825 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rms <at> gnu.org,
	Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Subject: Re: bug#7825: Cannot return from the debugger
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 10:41:19 +0100

Štěpán Němec <stepnem <at> gmail.com> writes:

> I'm not sure I understand what you two are saying or how that relates to
> the problem at hand, but what a decent Lisp system usually does when an
> error happens inside the debugger is just add another debugging layer on
> the stack, i.e. start the debugger on the "newer" error; then when you
> exit the inner level, you end up back debugging the outer level.

That's not returning from the debugger, that's throwing to some outer
level, i.e. the context of the error is destroyed in any case.

Andreas.

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