Re: about instrumenting macro calls

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From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: about instrumenting macro calls
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 23:31:40 -0700 (MST)

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>     I haven't looked into how this might be implemented -- I presume this
>     would be a C-level and not Emacs Lisp-level thing.
> 
> It can be done entirely at Lisp level, and that would be the clean
> thing to do.  The function definition of `edebug-spec' can be a no-op.
> The byte compiler has to notice it so as to put it into the compiled
> macro; that won't be hard.  Then edebug just has to look inside the macro
> definition to find the spec.

I presume some of the relevant files are:

  lisp/emacs-lisp/byte-compile.el
  lisp/emacs-lisp/edebug.el

I am not familiar with the code within though.  The value for the
"Maintainer:" field for both of these files is "FSF" ;-)

Is there someone for which making these chnages would be a simple
task?


P.S. I noticed a fair number of `def-edebug-spec's in edebug.el (e.g.
     for `rx', `push', `pop').  Once the mechanism in question exists,
     would it make sense to move these specifications out of edebug.el
     and into the corresponding macro definitions?