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From: Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>
To: Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] backtrace output: feature request
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 10:35:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m34pn8a33r.fsf@loiso.podval.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <462B34B1.50805@inria.fr>

> * Xavier Leroy <Knivre.Yrebl@vaevn.se> [2007-04-22 12:10:57 +0200]:
>
>> how do I get backtraces on exceptions in then top-level?
>> I want to see something like:
>> h called g on line 1
>> g called f on line 1
>> f raised invalid_argument on line 1
>
> Currently, you cannot.  Conceivably, this would be the same mechanism
> as outlined above (i.e. making backtrace data available from Caml).
> However, you'd get a backtrace in terms of file names and line
> numbers, which don't make that much sense for toplevel definitions.

yes they do. file=function name.

> Functions names don't really exist in compiled code.

sure - but file/line annotations do, and they can be easily augmented
with function names.

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      reply	other threads:[~2007-04-22 14:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-18 16:03 Sam Steingold
2007-04-22 10:10 ` [Caml-list] " Xavier Leroy
2007-04-22 14:35   ` Sam Steingold [this message]

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