[Fwd: guile-debugger-0.1 available]
Bill Gribble
grib@linuxdevel.com
15 Aug 2001 16:35:44 -0500
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Thought this might be of interest to gnucash folks. Also keep in mind
that our own Rob Browning has a pretty decent profiler in the
forthcoming guile-1.6 ...
b.g.
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Subject: guile-debugger-0.1 available
From: Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
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Please find guile-debugger-0.1 available at
http://www.ossau.uklinux.net/guile/guile-debugger-0.1.tar.gz
guile-debugger is a Guile debugger. It acts as an enhanced drop-in
replacement for the (ice-9 debug) and (ice-9 debugger) modules that
come with core Guile.
Please send suggestions, contributions and bug reports to
neil@ossau.uklinux.net.
This Release =========================================================
It's a pretty raw release (firmly in accordance with the `release
early, release often' principle :-).
So, on the one hand, be careful with it; but on the other hand, I'm
very interested to hear if you find it useful, and any suggestions you
have for where I should focus effort next.
Features =============================================================
guile-debugger's current features are very similar to those provided
by the (ice-9 debug) and (ice-9 debugger) modules in the core Guile
distribution. The three user-level enhancements are
- application-based breakpoints - i.e. the ability to say `break and
enter the debugger immediately before any application of so-and-so
procedure'
- debug-on-error - i.e. the ability to automatically enter the
debugger when an error occurs
- integration of breakpoints (and other future debugger features) with
tracing, so that they can be used together.
>From an internal point of view, the other big difference from (ice-9
debugger) is that I've replaced its dedicated command loop code with
some (previously written) generic command loop code of my own.
Prerequisites ========================================================
You need Guile version 1.5.1 (to be released shortly) or later, or a
CVS Guile of July 2001 or later (either stable or unstable). If you
don't already have this, see under "Obtaining guile-debugger and
Guile".
Sample Session =======================================================
As a substitute for real documentation, here's a transcript of a
sample debugging session.
guile> (use-modules (ossau debugger) (ossau fns))
guile> (debugh)
This is the Guile debugger; type `help' for help.
There is 1 frame on the stack.
Frame 0: [primitive-eval (debugh)]
debug> trace-apply facti
debug> quit
guile> (fact2 5)
[facti 5 1]
[facti 4 5]
[facti 3 20]
[facti 2 60]
[facti 1 120]
[facti 0 120]
120
($ 2) => 120
guile> (debugh)
This is the Guile debugger; type `help' for help.
There is 1 frame on the stack.
Frame 0: [primitive-eval (debugh)]
debug> break-apply facti
debug> quit
guile> (fact2 5)
BREAK: about to apply #<procedure facti (n a)> to args (5 1) [non-tail call]
[facti 5 1]
Frame 2: [facti 5 1]
debug> info-args
Stack frame: 2
This frame has 2 arguments:
5
1
debug> quit
BREAK: about to apply #<procedure facti (n a)> to args (4 5) [tail call]
[facti 4 5]
Frame 3: [facti 4 5]
debug> quit
BREAK: about to apply #<procedure facti (n a)> to args (3 20) [tail call]
[facti 3 20]
Frame 3: [facti 3 20]
debug> unbreak-apply facti
debug> quit
[facti 2 60]
[facti 1 120]
[facti 0 120]
120
($ 3) => 120
guile> (debugh)
This is the Guile debugger; type `help' for help.
There is 1 frame on the stack.
Frame 0: [primitive-eval (debugh)]
debug> debug-on-error #t
debug> quit
guile> (let ((a "hello") (b 34)) (string-append a b))
This is the Guile debugger; type `help' for help.
There are 3 frames on the stack.
Frame 2: [string-append "hello" 34]
debug> backtrace
In unknown file:
?: 0* [primitive-eval (let ((a "hello") (b 34)) (string-append a b))]
6: 1* (let ((a "hello") (b 34)) (string-append a b))
6: 2 [string-append "hello" 34]
debug> info-frame
Stack frame: 2
This frame is an application.
The corresponding expression is:
(string-append a b)
The procedure being applied is: string-append
The procedure's arguments are: ("hello" 34)
debug> quit
ERROR: In procedure string-append:
ERROR: Wrong type argument (expecting STRINGP): 34
ABORT: (wrong-type-arg)
guile>
Obtaining Guile ======================================================
If you don't already have Guile 1.6.0 or later, you also need to
download and install this by following the instructions at
http://www.gnu.org/software/guile.
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