find module of `fromJust Nothing'

[Serge D. Mechveliani]

On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 12:17:07PM +0000, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:

> The "Maybe.fromJust: Nothing" comes from the library code itself.
> The "Nat1" part is simply the name of the binary.  It give no clue to 
> who called fromJust.


I do not understand the whole idea.
First, the same problem is for many functions:  head, tail, and others.
  
Also I remember that in some cases GHC reports at  run-time  something 
like this:
  unexhaustive pattern corresponding to the line  No ... in the module ...

, and this helps a lot.
If an error of kind  (f _)  appears in the GHC library function  f, 
the run-time system, probably recalls who had called for  f,
because it stores the stack of calls, etc, I do not know ... 
?


> Finding who called fromJust is an often-requested feature eg 
> tp://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/960.  Currently our best answer 
>  to try with the -xc flag (involves recompiling)
>
> The Haskellwiki debugging page could perhaps mention the -xc thing.  
> I had trouble even finding the page from the Haskell.org home page.   
> http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Debugging


I do not know what is wiki.
Is not this sufficient to look into the GHC User Guide for  -xc  ?

So far, I only tried   ghc $dmCpOpt -xc --make Nat1
and obtained
                       ghc-6.6: unrecognised flags: -xc

Then, tried   ./Nat1 +RTS -xc -RTS
and obtained
              not built for: -prof   ...

So:  to re-make all the project for profiling, and then to try

            ./Nat1 +RTS -pT -xc -RTS
?

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Serge Mechveliani
mechvel at botik.ru