On 02/09/2016 10:51, Alex Tweedly wrote:
But in the end I found the programming experience in LCB just too
frustrating.
I've been spoiled :-) I'm used to symbolic, interactive debuggers -
been using them pretty much continually for the last 45 years that I've
been programming, starting with DDT and a proprietary one in the 70s, on
to GDB in the 80s and 90s, then interpreted languages for a little
while, before finally moving up to Revolution / Livecode.
And after trying it for a while, I'm just not willing to go back to the
dark ages and program in LCB without a decent toolset that provides
really effective diagnostics and debugging features.
Hey Alex,
I agree with you! It would be great to have a good debugger for LCB.
Unfortunately, due to the way that LCB works, it would need to be an
out-of-process debugger, and this is a lot of work that I've not yet had
the time to poke at.
My current idea (that I've not yet had time to poke at) is to write a
GDB extension in Guile Scheme that can print LCB stack frames
interleaved with C/C++ stack frames.
There's some documentation here:
https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/Guile.html#Guile
And there's an example for V8 here:
https://wingolog.org/pub/d8-gdb.scm (warning: moderately terrifying)
Peter
--
Dr Peter Brett <peter.br...@livecode.com>
LiveCode Technical Project Manager
lcb-mode for Emacs: https://github.com/peter-b/lcb-mode
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