The debugging information have been completely overhauled for the new
compiler.
Compiled files (.com files) now countain a COMPILED-MODULE object.
Debugging information is accessed by a DBG-LOCATOR, and the located
files must contains a DBG-WRAPPER with corresponding timestamps.
These objects also contain a version which allows safe extension of
the dbg information.
DBG-BLOCKs now contain access paths which describe how to find the
value for the bindings (they used to describe the inverse, i.e. the
layout of the object).
DBG-PROCEDURES have been streamlined to get lambda list information
from the source code.
DBG-VARIABLES are implemented as pairs to save on storage.
Improved error message for ENVIRONMENT-* operations.
Now there is only one kind of compiled environment which contains a
root object and a DBG-BLOCK. The access paths in the DBG-BLOCK are
relative to the root object.
The access paths are evaluated by a stack machine which understands a
fixed vocabulary of operations and 1- and 2- place primitives.
CCENV/LOOKUP and CCENV/ASSIGN! now give an unbound variable error if
he variable is not bound. They used to return an unavailable
object (currently the symbol "??").
CCENV/ARGUMENTS tries to be clever with #!OPTIONAL arguements - an
assignment trap (i.e. default-object?) determines the number of
arguments provided that the previous argument is either required or
available.