[m-rev.] Add a listing facility to mdb

[Peter Ross]

On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 04:37:31PM +1000, Ralph Becket wrote:
> There is a more serious problem here: debugging grades don't support
> tail recursion, so either method in Mercury (scanning once for newlines
> vs. every time a listing is requested) can exhaust the stack.  This
> happens when trying to look at, say, io.m in the library.
> 
Shouldn't --trace-optimize turn tail recursion back on?

Note also one can also increase the stack using

  export MERCURY_OPTIONS=--detstack-size=<size>

which is what we do here to debug the server we are developing (we
generally need a 50Mb stack).
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