Excellent, those suggestions are along the lines I was thinking.
Thanks for the pointer (no pun intended) re. the C functions in the
RTS; I hadn't known of those.
Will
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 6:22 AM, Simon Marlow
Sounds interesting, though I know nothing about LLDB. It would be nice to have a little help from the debugger for things like:
- displaying the stack in a nicer way - displaying heap objects - searching the heap - displaying runtime state: what threads exist and what state they're in, summary of various RTS data structures, etc.
For some of these I have C functions in the RTS that I can call from gdb. e.g. there's findPtr() that searches the heap for occurrences of a particular pointer (useful for debugging leaks when the higher level tools don't give you enough information).
Cheers, Simon