From: Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: wrong-type-arg in scm_display_backtrace
Date: 09 Jan 2003 23:42:06 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3wuldki0h.fsf@laruns.ossau.uklinux.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030108223847.GA6983@masanjin.net>
>>>>> "William" == William Morgan <wmorgan@masanjin.net> writes:
William> and now I have backtraces. Yes!!! Now, I just have to
William> figure out how to use vports to steal the backtrace dump
William> and put it somewhere intelligent...
Great!
William> Having finally succeeded, I have a couple comments:
William> 1) The commands above are wicked voodoo that should be
William> encapsulated in some kind of scm_enable_debugging()
William> library call. There's no way I, as the application
William> developer, should be playing with these variables
William> directly.
Agreed. There is a Scheme `turn-on-debugging' proc in boot-9.scm, but
this is relatively hard to use from C.
William> 2) This whole process has been unnecessarily difficult,
William> considering that I am doing *only* and *exactly* what
William> anyone who wants to embed Guile in their program must do
William> (run Guile callbacks, catch errors, display errors
William> nicely).
Yes, I'm afraid so. But things are improving, and largely thanks to
positive experimentation and feedback like this.
William> Issue #2, at least, is mostly a matter of lack of
William> documentation. I promise to write up a "how to embed
William> Guile in your C program" document and post it here.
Wonderful - I look forward to it!
Neil
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-09 23:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-30 1:31 wrong-type-arg in scm_display_backtrace William Morgan
2002-12-31 23:42 ` Neil Jerram
2003-01-05 3:57 ` William Morgan
2003-01-06 19:06 ` Neil Jerram
2003-01-07 5:42 ` William Morgan
2003-01-08 20:21 ` Neil Jerram
2003-01-08 22:38 ` William Morgan
2003-01-09 23:42 ` Neil Jerram [this message]
2003-01-10 20:31 ` vports from c questions William Morgan
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