I don't think Debug was mentioned explicitly in your original post, but I see you did say "navigate stack frames" and certainly Debug can't do that.
How exactly do you think that can be accomplished, without doing something along the lines of what Keno is doing? I don't have the impression that seamless julia/c is his primary focus; I think it's more that it will be a nice side effect of just getting stack-frame-navigating debugging working. I think the reason Debug.jl hasn't gotten a lot of attention is because it's basically "done," meaning that it's not obvious (to me at least) that an instrumenting debugger can get much better. If you have some concrete suggestions, they could be very interesting. Best, --Tim On Tuesday, June 02, 2015 09:04:58 AM Michael Turok wrote: > Yes - but it hasn't gotten much attention over the last two years (and > sorry, I thought I had mentioned Debug.jl in my initial post). > > https://github.com/toivoh/Debug.jl/graphs/code-frequency > > Feels like there could be a lot of work there that would be tremendously > helpful, but not sure if people are focused on it (and instead attention is > on being able to seamlessly navigate from julia -> c). > > Is anyone working on extending the functionality there, or is it viewed as > a developmental dead end? > > Michael > > On Tuesday, June 2, 2015 at 11:31:04 AM UTC-4, Tim Holy wrote: > > https://github.com/toivoh/Debug.jl > > <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Ftoivoh%2FDebug.jl > > &sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFVItS_nt9vtR2lzYEoYZu8ZhxJwA> > > > > --Tim > > > > On Tuesday, June 02, 2015 08:21:51 AM Michael Turok wrote: > > > Right, but I'm interested in an debugger that would work without a > > > > custom > > > > > compilation of LLVM, and would work with a stock release of julia 0.3*. > > > > > > On Tuesday, June 2, 2015 at 11:11:09 AM UTC-4, Isaiah wrote: > > > > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/julia-dev/gcZ5dZJni5o/VYaLkCd756cJ > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Michael Turok <michae...@gmail.com > > > > > > > > <javascript:>> wrote: > > > >> Is there anyone currently focusing on building an AST-level debugger > > > > that > > > > > >> can navigate stack frames and not require modifying code to insert > > > >> instrumentation stubs, etc? > > > >> > > > >> While the LLVM JIT debugger referenced in the below thread from > > > > December > > > > > >> 2013 is interesting, seems like there might be more low-lying fruit > > > > out > > > > > >> there..... > > > > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/julia-users/debugger/julia-use > > > > > >> rs/zEqWxn7HDVo/ZTRZh4ziR9kJ
