From: Kaspar Rohrer <kaspar.rohrer@gmail.com>
To: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Inspect and dump values on the OCaml heap
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 01:23:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C98276FE-7E65-4B3F-99E2-106936891865@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100414224529.GA24089@annexia.org>
On Apr 15, 2010, at 12:45 AM, Richard Jones wrote:
> Graphviz output is interesting, but I would add that such a thing
> exists as the 'Std.dump' function in extlib.
The last time I've checked, Std.dump had several shortcomings. It did not handle cycles in the object graph that well (that's probably an understatement, it did not print much information about some value types (e.g. custom, closure).
I tried to remedy that in my library. I also do not try to interpret the values (e.g. lists are printed as either 0 or (BL0#2 hd tl) ). The library simply dumps the object graph, with references or links where appropriate or needed.
I will go into more detail if anybody is interested, but right now I just want to get the code out there.
In the meantime, there are two sample pictures of graphviz dumps on my personal blog: http://lambdamuesli.blogspot.com/ (I apologize for the shameless plug)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-14 23:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-14 15:02 Kaspar Rohrer
2010-04-14 22:45 ` [Caml-list] " Richard Jones
2010-04-14 23:23 ` Kaspar Rohrer [this message]
2010-04-15 0:40 ` Martin Jambon
2010-04-15 5:19 ` rixed
2010-04-15 2:09 ` Kaustuv Chaudhuri
2010-04-15 5:31 ` rixed
2010-04-15 5:42 ` Martin Jambon
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