[Vm-dev] Exploring the simulator (was Re: REPL image for simulation)

[Bert Freudenberg]

> On 04.06.2016, at 04:17, Ben Coman <btc at openinworld.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 3:45 PM, Ben Coman <btc at openinworld.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Is their some method I can call in the Image to cause the simulator to
>>> break into a debugger?  I want to do this right before the end block
>>> bracket, so I can trace the termination of a forked block without
>>> needing to trace over the block's statements.
>>> 
>>> cheers -ben
> 
> On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 11:50 PM, Clément Bera <bera.clement at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Well you can call a method with a specific selector name and use the [break selector] feature in the simulator. Alternatively you call a specific primitive and put a halt in it in the simulator.
> 
> cool, thanks.
> cheers -ben


Smalltalk exitToDebugger

calls primitive 114 which runs primitiveExitToDebugger which maybe the simulator should handle differently ...

- Bert -



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