: GitHub pull requests (Richard Eisenberg)
2. RE: Show instance for SrcSpan (Simon Peyton Jones)
3. Re: GitHub pull requests (Ben Gamari)
4. Re: Stepping through ghc (Arash Rouhani)
5. RE: Again: Uniques in GHC (p.k.f.holzensp...@utwente.nl
In direct answer to your question, there's not a great way to step through the
code. As far as I know, there isn't a way to load GHC into GHCi. Personally, I
think a lot about the type-checker and so use -ddump-tc-trace a lot. You can
line up the output with the code to see what is going on.
Hi,
I'm new to ghc codebase and I'm interested in stepping through the code in
order to gain a better idea of how it all works.
- Is there a way to load ghc into ghci ? and debug through it ?
- What are the ways experienced ghc devs step through the code ?
- Any techniques you guys recommend ?
Hi Omar,
You might want to narrow your scope to one part of GHC. For example, I
mostly focused on the Run Time System to be able to conduct my master's
thesis. Also, you might want to start off with a tiny goal, like to fix
bug XYZ.
Oh, and most important of all is the Commentary, which I
Yeah , picking a single subsystem to get started is a very good and healthy
idea.
On Oct 6, 2014 2:50 PM, Arash Rouhani rar...@student.chalmers.se wrote:
Hi Omar,
You might want to narrow your scope to one part of GHC. For example, I
mostly focused on the Run Time System to be able to
