Tracing idea

[Simon Marlow]

On 21/02/2011 01:08, Edward Z. Yang wrote:
> Excerpts from Tyson Whitehead's message of Sun Feb 20 07:14:56 -0500 2011:
>> I believe a back trace on the actual call stack is generally considered not
>> that useful in a lazy language as it corresponds to the evaluation sequence,
>> That is, it is demand centric while written code is production centric
>
> Yeah, such a buffer wouldn't be very useful for end-users; I'm thinking more
> in terms of going "backwards in time" for the STG execution.

Yes, that might be useful.  However it would require compiling all the 
libraries with that option too - so it would be an internal debug option 
for use with a live GHC build, not something you could use with a 
pre-built GHC (well, you could use it, but you wouldn't get traces for 
library code).

Cheers,
	Simon