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1 : anton 1.1 \ Simple debugging aids
2 :    
3 : anton 1.3 \ Copyright (C) 1995,1997 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 :     \ Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
20 :    
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 :     defer printdebugdata ( -- ) \ gforth
40 :     ' .s IS printdebugdata
41 :     defer printdebugline ( addr -- ) \ gforth
42 :    
43 :     : (printdebugline) ( addr -- )
44 :     cr print-sourcepos ." :"
45 :     \ it would be nice to print the name of the following word,
46 :     \ but that's not easily possible for primitives
47 :     printdebugdata
48 :     cr ;
49 :    
50 :     ' (printdebugline) IS printdebugline
51 :    
52 :     : (~~) ( -- )
53 :     r@ printdebugline
54 : anton 1.2 r> sourcepos %size + >r ;
55 : anton 1.1
56 :     : ~~ ( compilation -- ; run-time -- ) \ gforth tilde-tilde
57 :     POSTPONE (~~) sourcepos, ; immediate
58 :    

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