Re: How to debug the scheme/guile interpreter?

[Nala Ginrut]

On Wed, 2013-01-09 at 21:59 -0500, Peter Teeson wrote:
> Greetings:
> Mac Pro 4,1 - MacOS 10.7.5
> I filed bug <http://bugs.gnu.org/13342> and Ludo' invited me to investigate 
> which I've been doing, 
> including reading the other bugs on this problem  http://bugs.gnu.org/10015,  
> http://bugs.gnu.org/10681.
> 
> My conclusion at this time, after a number of experiments, is that the issue 
> is not in the llvm compiler but somewhere in the interpreter.
> I am not familiar with the scheme or guile languages but have been a (now 
> retired) developer on Mac for 25 years.
> Before that 14 years on IBM mainframes as a systems programmer working on an 
> APL interpreter.
> 
> I would like to try and track down this old issue but don't know how to debug 
> the scheme/guile interpreter.
> Looked in the guile manual but didn't find anything that helped me. 
> 
> Please give me some pointers on how to proceed.
> 
> TIA
> 
> Peter

hi Peter!
I know nothing about that bug. But if you want to use GDB to debug with
Guile code, you may need 'gdbinit' which is in the toplevel guile src
directory.
Say, 'gdb -x gdbinit', then you can use 'gwrite' to print out the SCM
type vars's value for your debugging.