Re: [Caml-list] Do you use a debugger with OCaml? If not, why not?

[Matthieu Dubuget <matthieu.dubuget@gmail.com>]

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Hello,

I recently had to understand a bug. I tried to use OCaml debugger, but
soon gave up with this approach, because I was not able to reach the
time location where the bug occured (even after I had solved the
install_printer step that is necessary to output structured values).

One reason why it was difficult to narrow the problem was because of a
shifting of the hilighted code fragments in emacs (yes: I used
ocamldebug from emacs). I suppose (but I was too lazy to check this
assumption) that this is due to my comments: in this program they are
full of UTF-8 mathematical characters.

And I came back to the traditionnal printf debugging method.

For sure, a simpler and more robust way to visualize/follow the
execution of a program would be a great help to debug ocaml programs.

I have no idea how multi-threaded programs are supposed to be debugged,
thought?

Salutations
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