Re: racing srfi-18 threads

[Andy Wingo]

Just pulling things back together here:

On Thu 03 Dec 2009 23:52, Neil Jerram <address@hidden> writes:

> Neil Jerram <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> [...]  wondering whether and how we
>> will provide similar debugging facilities for compiled code as we have
>> in 1.8.x for interpreted code.
>
> Some more thoughts here, to try to build a complete new picture.
>
> Things that we can do quite nicely in 1.8.x are:
> - stack inspection
>   - seeing the frames and what is happening, for context
>   - mapping back to source code
>   - querying variable values
>   - evaluating an expression in a frame's local environment
> - breakpoints
> - tracing
> - single stepping.
>
> We should try to include profiling and code coverage in the picture.

We can do all this in 1.9/2.0 now, except breakpoints and single
stepping, and evaluating in the context of a frame isn't accessible
right now. I want to fix the breakpoints and stepping situation soonish,
though.

Andy
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