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1 : anton 1.1 \ Simple debugging aids
2 :    
3 : anton 1.11 \ Copyright (C) 1995,1997,1999,2002,2003,2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 : anton 1.1
5 :     \ This file is part of Gforth.
6 :    
7 :     \ Gforth is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
8 :     \ modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
9 :     \ as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
10 :     \ of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
11 :    
12 :     \ This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
13 :     \ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
14 :     \ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
15 :     \ GNU General Public License for more details.
16 :    
17 :     \ You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
18 :     \ along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
19 : anton 1.6 \ Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.
20 : anton 1.1
21 :    
22 :     \ They are meant to support a different style of debugging than the
23 :     \ tracing/stepping debuggers used in languages with long turn-around
24 :     \ times.
25 :    
26 :     \ IMO, a much better (faster) way in fast-compilig languages is to add
27 :     \ printing code at well-selected places, let the program run, look at
28 :     \ the output, see where things went wrong, add more printing code, etc.,
29 :     \ until the bug is found.
30 :    
31 :     \ We support fast insertion and removal of the printing code.
32 :    
33 :     \ !!Warning: the default debugging actions will destroy the contents
34 :     \ of the pictured numeric output string (i.e., don't use ~~ between <#
35 :     \ and #>).
36 :    
37 :     require source.fs
38 :    
39 : crook 1.4 defer printdebugdata ( -- ) \ gforth print-debug-data
40 : anton 1.1 ' .s IS printdebugdata
41 : anton 1.7 defer .debugline ( nfile nline -- ) \ gforth print-debug-line
42 : anton 1.10 \G Print the source code location indicated by @var{nfile nline}, and
43 :     \G additional debugging information; the default @code{.debugline}
44 :     \G prints the additional information with @code{printdebugdata}.
45 : anton 1.1
46 : anton 1.7 : (.debugline) ( nfile nline -- )
47 :     cr .sourcepos ." :"
48 : anton 1.1 \ it would be nice to print the name of the following word,
49 :     \ but that's not easily possible for primitives
50 :     printdebugdata
51 :     cr ;
52 :    
53 : anton 1.7 ' (.debugline) IS .debugline
54 : anton 1.1
55 : anton 1.10 :noname ( -- )
56 :     current-sourcepos .debugline ;
57 :     :noname ( compilation -- ; run-time -- )
58 :     compile-sourcepos POSTPONE .debugline ;
59 : anton 1.12 interpret/compile: ~~ ( -- ) \ gforth tilde-tilde
60 : anton 1.10 \G Prints the source code location of the @code{~~} and the stack
61 :     \G contents with @code{.debugline}.
62 :    

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