How do I use CallStack?

Levent Erkok erkokl at gmail.com
Mon Dec 7 04:48:42 UTC 2015


There's a function for that:
https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.8.1.0/docs/GHC-Stack.html#v:showCallStack



On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 8:43 PM, Richard Eisenberg <eir at cis.upenn.edu> wrote:

> Hi devs,
>
> I wish to use the new CallStack feature to track call sites of a function.
> I want my function to print out where it was called from. I do not want to
> call `error`. How do I do this?
>
> I looked in the release notes. They describe the CallStack feature at an
> overview, and the docs suggest that it has a Show instance. But the notes
> don't say where to import CallStack from. I found it in GHC.Stack, but I'm
> unsure this is the right place to take it from. The GHC release notes also
> refer me to the ghc-prim release notes. These (which I assume are ghc-prim/
> changelog.md) don't discuss CallStack. In any case, when I try to `show
> ?callstack`, I learn that CallStack is not an instance of Show, or I
> somehow haven't imported the instance.
>
> Help?
>
> Thanks!
> Richard
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