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 <marlo...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
