[m-dev.] For review: Fix a bug in the external debugger

[Tyson Dowd]

On 20-Feb-1999, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> 
> Well, there are actually two reasons why we don't print out typeinfos.
> The first reason is that the user probably doesn't want to see them.
> The second reason is that if we tried, it would crash.
> So both comments are valid.  But neither comment gives a complete
> explanation.

Why would it crash?

The accurate garbage collector debugging code successfully prints out
typeinfos.  There were some bugs I fixed to get this working, but
I don't think they were related to the printing of the typeinfos, just
the retrieval.

Is there something I'm missing?

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