guile-debugging-0.11 available

guile-debugging-0.11 available

[Neil Jerram]

I'm happy to announce release 0.11 of my guile-debugging package,
which includes an Emacs front end for Guile development as well as
various debugging enhancements such as breakpoints.

The tarball is at
http://download.gna.org/guile-debugging/guile-debugging-0.11.tar.gz

There is a tutorial for the Emacs front end (GDS) at
http://download.gna.org/guile-debugging/gds-tutorial.txt

And the complete manual is at
http://download.gna.org/guile-debugging/guile-debugging.html

NEWS is appended below.

Regards,
    Neil

Changes in guile-debugging-0.11

* GDS changes

** Breakpoints are easier to use

The breakpoints set by `C-x SPC' now work regardless of whether the
code that they are targeted at is loaded before or after the setting
of the breakpoint.  See the manual for further details.

** Tool tips to show variable values

When GDS is displaying a stack, you can see the value of any
identifier in the code that corresponds to the selected stack frame
just by moving the mouse over it.

** Tutorial added

New file gds-tutorial.txt contains a step-by-step tutorial on how to
use GDS.

** Better automatic buffer association heuristics

The code for automatically associating a Scheme buffer with a Guile
client has been improved, and made customizable by the introduction of
several gds-auto-* options.  With the default settings of these
options, the intention is to do the "obviously" correct thing in 99%
of cases.

** Quit/continue/go distinction removed

In a GDS stack display buffer, the `q', `c' and `g' keystrokes now all
have the same effect.  For a continuable stack (i.e. at a trap or
breakpoint) this is to continue normal execution; for a
non-continuable stack (i.e after an exception) it is to return to the
lazy catch handler, which will then rethrow the exception.

(The previous idea of `q' executing (throw 'debugger-quit) has been
discarded, because it relies on assumptions about the dynamic context
that are not always correct.)

** Breakpoints persist between sessions

Breakpoint definitions are written by default to the
~/.gds-breakpoints file, and reread when GDS is loaded again.

* Scheme API changes

** New procedure: throw->trap-context

This makes it easy to invoke GDS from within a lazy-catch handler, so
as to explore the stack at the point of the throw.  Basic usage is:

  (lazy-catch <key>

    <protected-thunk>

    (lambda (key . args)
      ...
      (gds-debug-trap (throw->trap-context key args))
      ...))

** New module: (ossau breakpoints)

Provides the Scheme-level interface to breakpoints; see the manual for
details.

** Support for Guile 1.7 as well as Guile 1.6

The Scheme code has been enhanced so that it works under Guile 1.7 as
well.

** Module removed: (ossau property-guardian)

No longer used, so removed.

** Location traps have been made precise

They now refer to a precise line and column position, rather than to a
range of positions.

* Released, 9th October 2005




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