[plt-scheme] Help understanding line numbers in error.

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Wed Apr 21 08:43:35 EDT 2010

The context is the stack trace at the point at which the error is
raised. In this case, the stack trace is relatively useless to you,
since the program that is running is the compiler, not your program.

Robby

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 7:34 AM, Patrick Li <patrickli.2001 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm wondering if someone would mind explaining how to read this error
> message.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> reference to undefined identifier: all-regs
>  === context ===
> /Users/patrickli_2001/Documents/Scheme/compiler.ss:330:0:
> compile-procedure-call
> /Users/patrickli_2001/Documents/Scheme/compiler.ss:283:0:
> compile-application
> /Users/patrickli_2001/Documents/Scheme/compiler.ss:210:0: compile-if
> /Users/patrickli_2001/Documents/Scheme/compiler.ss:268:0:
> compile-lambda-body
> /Users/patrickli_2001/Documents/Scheme/compiler.ss:252:0: compile-lambda
> /Users/patrickli_2001/Documents/Scheme/compiler.ss:192:0: compile-definition
> /Applications/plt-scheme/collects/scheme/private/misc.ss:74:7
> /Applications/plt-scheme/collects/r5rs/run.ss: [running body]
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Which is caused by loading the attached file.
> The cause of the error itself is very clear. all-regs has not been defined
> anywhere. But I don't understand what the "context" means.
> The only place all-regs is used, is in the function compile-proc-appl which
> stars at line 356. But this isn't mentioned anywhere in the context
> information.
> (I'm running mzscheme from emac's scheme mode)
> Thanks for your help
>   -Patrick
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