Roland Senn authored Oct 03, 2019 and Marge Bot committed Oct 26, 2019

`:steplocal` enables only breakpoints in the current top-level binding.

When a normal breakpoint is hit, then the module name and the break id from the `BRK_FUN` byte code
allow us to access the corresponding entry in a ModBreak table. From this entry we then get the SrcSpan
(see compiler/main/InteractiveEval.hs:bindLocalsAtBreakpoint).
With this source-span we can then determine the current top-level binding, needed for the steplocal command.

However, if we break at an exception or at an error, we don't have an BRK_FUN byte-code, so we don't have any source information.
The function `bindLocalsAtBreakpoint` creates an `UnhelpfulSpan`, which doesn't allow us to determine the current top-level binding.
To avoid a `panic`, we have to check for `UnhelpfulSpan` in the function `ghc/GHCi/UI.hs:stepLocalCmd`.
Hence a :steplocal command after a break-on-exception or a break-on-error is not possible.