Re: Debugging plans

[Rob Browning]

Neil Jerram <address@hidden> writes:

> To link such procedures with the evaluator traps mechanism, I
> propose to change the current apply-, enter- and exit-frame-handlers
> to hooks (defined in C and visible from Scheme) to which users can
> add such procedures using add-hook!.  (Hmm... not sure exactly what
> the parameter list should be for these hooks; currently the handlers
> are given more than just a debug object - do they need the other
> parameters?)

Just make sure we preserve the ability to fire a "hook" on every
function call.  I'm using that right now, along with setitimer and
times to write a first pass at a statistical profiler.  For now
there'll be no call graph or other fancy bits, but so far it's going
pretty well.

Thanks

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Rob Browning
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