How to use pprTrace ?

[Omar Mefire]

Thanks,It's pretty simple what I wanna print, I'm trying to familiarize myself with debugging GHC so I can get a general feel for how the whole thing works.
Trying to use Debug.Trace.trace or Debug.Trace.traceStack, I now get the following error :
      GHC [stage 1] compiler/stage2/build/Module.o-boot      ghc-stage1: panic! (the 'impossible' happened)      (GHC version 7.11.20150810 for x86_64-unknown-linux): v_unsafeGlobalDynFlags: not initialised
 Omar Mefire, 


     Le Samedi 15 août 2015 13h45, Edward Z. Yang <ezyang at mit.edu> a écrit :
   

 It is just as the message says: you can't use pprTrace too early in the
execution of a GHC program.  It looks like you're trying to print
something pretty simple, so why not try a plain old Debug.Trace trace?

Edward

Excerpts from Omar Mefire's message of 2015-08-15 13:40:35 -0700:
> Hi all,I'm trying to step through some ghc code.I am trying to use pprTrace ( for the first time ) and I keep getting an error when I use it :I've added it to the file ghc/Main.hs and the resulting code is this :
>        let argv1' = map (mkGeneralLocated "on the commandline") argv1       (argv2, staticFlagWarnings) <- pprTrace "argv1 prime" (ppr argv1') $ parseStaticFlags argv1'
> I want to examine the value of argv1'. After my modification, I go into the ghc/ folder and run : 'make'But doing this leads to an error when I try to run the program :
>       ghc-stage2: panic! (the 'impossible' happened)      (GHC version 7.11.20150810 for x86_64-unknown-linux): Static flags have not been initialised!          Please call GHC.parseStaticFlags early enough.
> What am I doing wrong ? Omar Mefire, 


  
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