Tim,

None of the stuff I did (which has been a while ago) worked correctly in
the debugger. Notice that just intercepting #activeProcess won't help -
it may be sent during a #quickStep (e.g., a non-simulated send during
simulated execution) which is _not_ run in the simulated process.

Cheers,
  - Andreas

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On 
> Behalf Of Tim Rowledge
> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 8:01 PM
> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: RE: Process local variable and debugging
> 
> 
> I like the general ideas here but have a couple of queries.
> 
> First, at the moment (as of update #4652) pool variables appear to be
> accessed using the pushLiteralVariable bytecodes, which does not send
> #value to the association. Changing that would involve some compiler
> hacking that I hope somebody else has already done. I hate to 
> needlessly
> repeat redundantly unneccessary coding.
> 
> Second, since the current system puts actual associations in 
> the method
> literal frame, simply swapping an array of associations doesn't seem
> likely to be enough on its own.
> 
> Third, I'm not yet convinced that this approach helps with my original
> problem in the debugger. If the process-globals are swapped 
> when process
> are swapped (which seems pretty much required) then the 
> debugger process
> will usurp the expected values of the original code. If the debugger
> _doesn't_ do the normal thing, then it might have problems if it were
> expecting to use its own process-globals anywhere.
> 
> Fourth, I seem to remember reading that there are some problems with
> PoolDictionaries and modules. What to do?
> 
> So, Andreas your message implies you've been making use of a 
> facility of
> this sort and I'd be delighted to get hold of the relevant 
> code asap :-)
> 
> tim
> -- 
> Tim Rowledge, tim at sumeru.stanford.edu, http://sumeru.stanford.edu/tim
> Don't be sexist; broads hate that!
> 
>