[m-dev.] for review: new debugger command set, part 1

[Tyson Dowd]

On 07-Jul-1998, Zoltan Somogyi <zs at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> 
> > Hmm, it might be cleaner to make the variable number a separate field.
> 
> I thought about that, but almost all numbers are one or two digits, so
> they cost only 2 or 3 bytes, and event that only when the string isn't
> common with other layout slots. Any separate field would have a cost
> significantly higher than this.
> 
> Only the debugger needs to know about this convention; gc ignores the names
> altogether.

Well, this isn't entirely true, agc debugging uses the variable names
if they are available, but it's not a big problem whatever you chose.

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