> - There needs to be some support from the
> compilers/interpreters. Hugs
> already has this. Ghc has some of it, but I abuse the
> profiling system
> in order to get the names of constructors to be present
> on the heap.
> I'm not happy with this. Under normal compilation GHC
> doesn't keep
> constructor names around, as far as I know. However, the
> new debugger
> in GHC must do something to get names of things, so perhaps the
> -prof hack is no longer needed?
I believe the debugger that Robert Ennals is working on tries to infer
constructor names from the symbol table of the binary. Personally, I'd
like to see debugging info placed in a separate segment of the binary,
so it won't be loaded with the code but can be used by a debugger.
Cheers,
Simon
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