Re: [dev-serveez] current status

[stefan]

On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Raimund 'Raimi' Jacob wrote:

> On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Martin Grabmueller wrote:
> 
> > >  * Why is the (current-load-port) undefined in exception and how can 
> > >    this be fixed ? Since it does not work you will not have any chance
> > >    finding the source of the exception in the file.
> > 
> > Well, this won't be ``fixed'', because its broken by
> > design. (current-load-port) returns the current load port while a file
> > is loaded.  When an error occurs and the corresponding handler is
> > invoked, the file loading has been aborted and there is no `current
> >   guile --debug -s some-buggy-scheme-file.scm
> > and you will see a backtrace.  Internally, enough information is
> > available to get at file name and line number information for the
> > failing expression.  This is already done in CVS Guile, where this
> > information is printed in backtraces.
> 
> mmmhh... can we traverse internal data structures to extract this
> information ? perhaps it would be nice to provide this information in some
> nice way ?

Made another (half working) approach to it: Saved the current-load-port in
some function and used it in the exception, worked fine. The problem is
the location of the saving: Where can I put it if none of my exported
procedures (gh_new_procedure) gets called *before* the exception occures ?

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