Sun, 06 Apr 2008

Ocaml : Exception Back Traces in Native Code.

Some time ago I wrote a blog post about exception back traces which at the time of that post only existed for the Ocaml byte code compiler.

However, version 3.10 of the Ocaml compiler which was released about a year ago, included exception back traces for native code as well as byte code. With the imminent release of Ubuntu's Hardy Heron, version 3.10 of the compiler is about to become much more widely available .

Enabling exception back traces is as simple as adding the "-g" option to the ocamlopt command line and then setting a single environment variable as follows. 


  export OCAMLRUNPARAM="b1"

Posted at: 12:48 | Category: CodeHacking/Ocaml | Permalink