1 Quick Instructions

▼ |  | Errortrace: Debugging and Profiling

1 | Quick Instructions
2 | Installing Errortrace
3 | Using Errortrace
4 | Errortrace Library
5 | Re-using Errortrace Stack Tracing
6 | Errortrace Key

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### 1`` Quick Instructions

First, throw away ".zo" versions of your program—at least for the modules or files that should be instrumented for error reporting or profiling.

Then,

- If your program has a module file ‹prog›, run it with

  racket -l errortrace -t ‹prog›

- If you program is a non-module top-level sequence of definitions and expressions, you can instead add

  > (require errortrace)

  to the beginning of the program or start Racket with the -l option before the arguments to load your program:
  racket -l errortrace ...

- If you have no main program and you want to use Racket interactively, include the -i flag before -l:
  racket -i -l errortrace

- To instrument the contents of a collection or package, compile it with:
  raco setup --mode errortrace ...

After starting errortrace in one of these ways, when an exception occurs, the exception handler prints something like a stack trace with most recent contexts first.

The errortrace module is strange: Don’t import it into another module. Instead, the errortrace module is meant to be invoked from the top-level, so that it can install an evaluation handler, exception handler, etc.

To reuse parts of the code of errortrace, import errortrace/errortrace-lib. That library contains all of the bindings described here, but does not set the compilation handler or the error display handler.

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