remove heap links in VM frames, incorporate vm frames into normal backtraces

* doc/ref/vm.texi (Stack Layout): Update to remove references to the
  "heap link".

* gdbinit: Update for "heap link" removal.

* libguile/frames.c:
* libguile/frames.h: Update macros and diagram for removal of "heap
  link". As part of this, we also remove "heap frames", replacing them
  with "vm frames", which are much like the interpreter's debug objects,
  but for VM stacks. That is to say, they don't actually hold the stack
  themselves, just the pointers into stack that's held by a continuation
  (either captured or current).

* libguile/stacks.c (stack_depth, read_frames): Since a "stack" object is
  really a copy of information that comes from somewhere else, it makes
  sense to copy over info from the VM, just as `make-stack' does from the
  evaluator. The tricky bit is to figure out how to interleave VM and
  interpreter frames. We do that by starting in the interpreter, and
  whenever the current frame's procedure is actually a program, we switch
  to the VM stack, switching back when we reach a "bootstrap frame". The
  last bit is hacky, but it does work...
  (is_vm_bootstrap_frame): Hacky predicate to see if a VM frame is a
  bootstrap frame.
  (scm_make_stack): Accept a VM frame in addition to debug frames.
  Probably has some bugs in this case. But in the case that the arg is
  #t (a common case), do the right thing, capturing the top VM frame as
  well, and interleaving those frames appropriately on the stack.

  As an accident, we lost the ability to limit the number of frames in
  the backtrace. We could add that back, but personally I always want
  *all* frames in the trace... Narrowing still works fine, though there
  are some hiccups sometimes -- e.g. an outer cut to a procedure that
  does a tail-call in VM code will never find the cut, as it no longer
  exists in the continuation.

* libguile/vm.h (struct scm_vm): So! Now that we have switched to save
  stacks in the normal make-stack, there's no more need for `this_frame'
  or `last_frame'. On the other hand, we can take this opportunity to fix
  tracing: when we're in a trace hook, we set `trace_frame' on the VM,
  so we know not to fire hooks when we're already in a hook.
  (struct scm_vm_cont): Expose this, as make-stack needs it to make VM
  frames from VM continuations.

* libguile/vm.c (scm_vm_trace_frame): New function, gets the current
  trace frame.
  (vm_mark, make_vm): Hook up the trace frame.
  (vm_dispatch_hook): New hook dispatcher, with a dynwind so it does the
  right thing if the hook exits nonlocally.

* libguile/vm-engine.c (vm_run): No more this_frame in the wind data.

* libguile/vm-engine.h (RUN_HOOK): Run hooks through the dispatcher.
  (ALIGN_AS_NON_IMMEDIATE, POP_LIST_ON_STACK): Remove unused code.
  (NEW_FRAME): Adapt for no HL in the frame.

* libguile/vm-i-system.c (goto/args, mv-call, return, return/values):
  Adapt for no HL in the frame.

* module/system/vm/frame.scm:
* module/system/vm/vm.scm: Beginnings of some reworkings, needs more
  thought.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/gdbinit b/gdbinit
index cd3add5fb..7c1b216a8 100644
--- a/gdbinit
+++ b/gdbinit
@@ -146,11 +146,6 @@ define nextframe
   output $vmdl
   newline
   set $vmsp=$vmsp-1
-  sputs "hl:\t"
-  output $vmsp
-  sputs "\t"
-  gwrite *$vmsp
-  set $vmsp=$vmsp-1
   sputs "el:\t"
   output $vmsp
   sputs "\t"
@@ -184,14 +179,13 @@ define nextframe
   gwrite *$vmsp
   set $vmsp=$vmsp-1
   newline
-  if !$vmdl
-    loop_break
+  if $vmdl
+    set $vmfp=$vmdl
+    set $vmbp=(struct scm_program*)(((SCM*)($vmfp[-1]))[1])
+    set $vmstack_base=$vmfp+$vmbp->nargs+$vmbp->nlocs+4
+    set $vmframe=$vmframe+1
+    newline
   end
-  set $vmfp=$vmdl
-  set $vmbp=(struct scm_program*)(((SCM*)($vmfp[-1]))[1])
-  set $vmstack_base=$vmfp+$vmbp->nargs+$vmbp->nlocs+4
-  set $vmframe=$vmframe+1
-  newline
 end
 
 define vmstack