The other thing that would be affected is debugging using a bytecode debugger like Cursive's - that won't work without the debug info in the bytecode. pack200 is usually something that you'd use for deployment though, so perhaps this isn't a problem.
On 12 October 2017 at 23:39, Alex Miller <a...@puredanger.com> wrote: > The SourceDebugExtension stuff is used (see JSR-45) to provide source code > maps from the compiled classes back to the original source files, namely > the source file name and the source file line numbers. This information > appears in stack traces. Removing these debug extensions means you won't > have source file names or line numbers in your stack traces for Clojure. As > far as I know, there should be effects in how anything actually executes > though. > > On Thursday, October 12, 2017 at 2:18:23 AM UTC-4, Nick Mudge wrote: >> >> Recently I needed to run pack200 on the clojure-1.8.0.jar >> >> When I did this I got an error that SourceDebugExtension is an unknown >> class attribute. >> >> I got around this problem by removing all the SourceDebugExtension class >> attributes from clojure-1.8.0.jar. >> >> Here are my questions: >> >> What is clojure using SourceDebugExtension for? What are the possible >> consequences or downsides from removing all the SourceDebugExtension class >> attributes from clojure-1.8.0.jar? >> >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
