From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by sympa.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D89207F0F9 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 15:03:07 +0100 (CET) IronPort-PHdr: 9a23:C1xEbBxUBMrXzETXCy+O+j09IxM/srCxBDY+r6Qd0e4eIJqq85mqBkHD//Il1AaPBtWGra0UwLeG+4nbGkU+or+5+EgYd5JNUxJXwe43pCcHRPC/NEvgMfTxZDY7FskRHHVs/nW8LFQHUJ2mPw6anHS+4HYoFwnlMkItf6KuStOU0JT8irD60qaQSjsLrQL1Wal1IhSyoFeZnegtqqwmFJwMzADUqGBDYeVcyDAgD1uSmxHh+pX4p8Y7oGwD884moppLWKD+OqA5VqBwDTI8Mmlz6te95jfZSg7aw3IGUXgNpSVFAr/A5Rf8FsP0uzH5q/E7xySbJtbzRLYycTWkqbt2TVnkhXFUZHYC7GjLh5ko3+pgqxW7qkknzg== Authentication-Results: mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr; spf=None smtp.pra=markus.weissmann@in.tum.de; spf=None smtp.mailfrom=markus.weissmann@in.tum.de; spf=None smtp.helo=postmaster@mail-out1.informatik.tu-muenchen.de Received-SPF: None (mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of markus.weissmann@in.tum.de) identity=pra; client-ip=131.159.0.8; receiver=mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="markus.weissmann@in.tum.de"; x-sender="markus.weissmann@in.tum.de"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible Received-SPF: None (mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of markus.weissmann@in.tum.de) identity=mailfrom; client-ip=131.159.0.8; receiver=mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="markus.weissmann@in.tum.de"; x-sender="markus.weissmann@in.tum.de"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible Received-SPF: None (mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of postmaster@mail-out1.informatik.tu-muenchen.de) identity=helo; client-ip=131.159.0.8; receiver=mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="markus.weissmann@in.tum.de"; x-sender="postmaster@mail-out1.informatik.tu-muenchen.de"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: A0BdAAAyv1VWnAgAn4NehA5vwDUdhXICgUE8EAEBAQEBAQEBEAEBAQEBCAsJCSEugi2CCAEBAwEjDwEFRgsEBxoCJgICVwYbiB4IrVCQQSGBAYpRhSeCToFEBZZXjS6BY0mGd49Qg3I4glKBXj00hSwBAQE X-IPAS-Result: A0BdAAAyv1VWnAgAn4NehA5vwDUdhXICgUE8EAEBAQEBAQEBEAEBAQEBCAsJCSEugi2CCAEBAwEjDwEFRgsEBxoCJgICVwYbiB4IrVCQQSGBAYpRhSeCToFEBZZXjS6BY0mGd49Qg3I4glKBXj00hSwBAQE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.20,342,1444687200"; d="scan'208";a="155093647" Received: from mail-out1.informatik.tu-muenchen.de ([131.159.0.8]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 25 Nov 2015 15:02:43 +0100 Received: from webmail.in.tum.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vmwebmail1.informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04C8E24036A for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 15:02:42 +0100 (CET) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 15:02:41 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?Q?Markus_Wei=C3=9Fmann?= To: In-Reply-To: <5655AE66.6000307@coherentgraphics.co.uk> References: <5655AE66.6000307@coherentgraphics.co.uk> Message-ID: X-Sender: markus.weissmann@in.tum.de User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/0.8.1 Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Do you use a debugger with OCaml? If not, why not? Hi John, > So, I ask: What do you use for debugging small and large OCaml > programs? If not a debugger, why not? What problems prevent it? How > does your debugging process differ when writing OCaml compared with > other languages you use? I'm one of those printf-tracers, too; I guess its because its _the_ platform independent way of debugging and it works the same in every language. I fire up the debugger when writing C, but only if I get a segmentation fault. regards -Markus -- Markus Weißmann, M.Sc. Technische Universität München Institut für Informatik Boltzmannstr. 3 D-85748 Garching Germany http://wwwknoll.in.tum.de/