Changes between Version 6 and Version 7 of Debugging/CompiledCode

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05/09/11 14:23:54 (2 years ago)
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    v6 v7  
    146146 
    147147Symbols in GHC are encoded using something called the Z-encoding (see 
    148 [[GhcFile(compiler/utils/Encoding.hs)]].  Basically special symbols are replaced by sequences 
     148[[GhcFile(compiler/utils/Encoding.hs)]]).  Basically special symbols are replaced by sequences 
    149149beginning with {{{z}}} or {{{Z}}}.  eg. {{{state#}}} becomes 
    150150{{{statezh}}}.  The letter {{{z}}} itself is replaced by {{{zz}}}. 
    … …  
    202202register {{{rbx}}}, which corresponds to the STG register {{{R1}}} on 
    203203a recent x86_64 build.  Check 
    204 [http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc/includes/stg/MachRegs.h MachRegs.h] to 
     204[[GhcFile(includes/stg/MachRegs.h)]] to 
    205205see which machine registers correspond to which STG registers on your 
    206206platform. 
    … …  
    211211constructor), followed by any number of payload words (just one word 
    212212containing the value 5, here).  Full details on closure layouts are in 
    213 [http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc/includes/rts/storage/Closures.h Closures.h]. 
     213[[GhcFile(includes/rts/storage/Closures.h)]]. 
    214214 
    215215It looks like the next word contains garbage, probably because it is