From: "Mark Shinwell" <mshinwell@janestreet.com>
To: Jianzhou Zhao <jianzhou@seas.upenn.edu>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Debugging C and OCaml
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 07:36:10 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100302073610.GG26002@janestreet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9dfe358d1003011652p5732e592t465468d0d8a64b42@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 07:52:01PM -0500, Jianzhou Zhao wrote:
> > It seems that OCaml runtime is interpreting via 'caml_interprete' the
> > OCaml function which C
> > calls at runtime. If this is true, we cannot really debug that OCaml
> > function, but we can
> > see how it is interpreted. But I guess we can debug the real assembly if I do
> > native compilation.
>
> If we do native compilation, will each OCaml function be assembled to
> a function in assemly with a readable name? That will help a lot while
> reading the assemly code.
The names are mangled, but it's pretty easy to work out what they correspond
to, except in the case of anonymous functions where you may need to do some
detective work.
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-02 7:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-01 15:10 Jianzhou Zhao
2010-03-01 15:19 ` [Caml-list] " Mark Shinwell
2010-03-01 19:24 ` rixed
2010-03-01 19:27 ` Mark Shinwell
2010-03-02 9:50 ` rixed
2010-03-02 0:48 ` Jianzhou Zhao
2010-03-02 0:52 ` Jianzhou Zhao
2010-03-02 7:36 ` Mark Shinwell [this message]
2010-03-02 7:42 ` Mark Shinwell
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