Re: Regarding Steps Towards ABCL STEP Functionality

Mark Evenson <[email protected]> Sun, 2 Aug 2020 18:20:52 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.editors.j.devel
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> On Aug 2, 2020, at 14:34, loveleague <[email protected]> wrote:
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> While reading through the release manual, I came across the realization -- from section 1.1.2 -- that ABCL still needs an implementation of the STEP function.
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> I would like to look into the details of the hurdles one might need to overcome to bring STEP functionality to ABCL. I imagine there may be some additional challenges from dealing with the JVM, but I'm not well versed as of yet on the topic of debuggers or JVM internals.
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> If it would be possible to share some details on where one would get started in trying to approach this, that would be appreciated.
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