help needed for adding isWHNF primop to 5.00.2

[Andy Gill]

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> Subject: RE: help needed for adding isWHNF primop to 5.00.2
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> 
> > > I know that Andy Gill was also interested in
> > > having similar facilities, perhaps he can help out.
> > 
> > I wonder if Andy is reading this? Possibly there are other people
> > around who are also interested in this. I think the HAT people
> > at NHC headquarters are also interested in these things.
> 

What I want is gdb for GHC :-) Perhaps another build (like profiling vs
optimizer), and when you press ^C, the ghcdb> prompt comes up :-)

I did at one point want to look at providing a Java style reflection
on polymorphic objects, towards having a non-evaluating print command
at the gdbdb prompt. If anyone is interested in helping me flesh this
out, then please email me.

I wonder if the Cost Center Stack idea can be combined some debugging
concepts, giving an approximation to a stack dump, and you can
print (using a non evaluating print) the stack?

Andy Gill