From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] How useful do you find the OCaml debugger?
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 10:15:50 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040204101550.GA32187@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <!~!AAAAAJOwVq2HeURFjPF/cT+K05uE3isA@cs.cmu.edu>
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 11:31:33PM -0500, donna+spam@cs.cmu.edu wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My advisor and I were having a dicussion about the utility of debuggers for
> functional langugages. He was of the opinion that they are not very useful
> at all (for a functional language), and wondered if anyone even uses, for
> instance, the OCaml debugger. Based on google-ing I have done, it looks like
> it *is* used, but it's hard to get a good impression from just a web crawl.
Sounds like your advisor never had a real job :-)
Debuggers are very useful indeed for tracking down logic bugs in real
world (ie. large, convoluted, badly written) programs.
I've found ocamldebug to be very painful to use, compared to, say,
gdb. That's when it works at all. For reasons I don't really
understand I've found that ocamldebug doesn't work very reliably,
often showing the wrong line numbers or losing the connection to the
debugged process.
One of the features I'd really like to see for ocaml would be proper
support for stabs / gdb. At the moment I'm mainly relying on
inserting eprintf / prerr_endline into the code.
Rich.
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-04 4:31 donna+spam
2004-02-04 8:18 ` Jean-Christophe Filliatre
2004-02-04 8:46 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2004-02-04 9:19 ` [Caml-list] " Jan Kybic
2004-02-04 10:15 ` Richard Jones [this message]
2004-02-04 10:30 ` [Caml-list] " Pierre Boulet
2004-02-04 15:04 ` Christophe Raffalli
2004-02-04 19:26 ` Kip Macy
2004-02-04 10:36 ` Henri Dubois-Ferriere
2004-02-04 15:38 ` Damien Doligez
2004-02-04 12:52 ` Nuutti Kotivuori
2004-02-04 15:35 ` Damien Doligez
2004-02-04 16:45 ` Ken Rose
2004-02-04 19:12 ` Issac Trotts
2004-02-22 21:21 ` _JusSx_
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