[Vm-dev] Re: [Pharo-dev] Arguments to --trace=?

[Martin McClure]

On 01/12/2014 03:26 PM, Eliot Miranda wrote:
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> On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Martin McClure <martin at hand2mouse.com
> <mailto:martin at hand2mouse.com>> wrote:
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>     Anybody know where to find what the acceptable arguments to --trace
>     on the command line are, and what each means?
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>     So far, I've tried:
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>     --trace                 Lots of output
>     --trace=0               No output
>     --trace=1               Looks maybe the same as --trace with no argument
>     --trace=2               No output
>     --trace=3               A whaling big lot of very interesting output
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>     Slightly better descriptions of these would be nice. :-)
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> Cogit>>sendTrace: aBooleanOrInteger
> <doNotGenerate>
> "traceFlags is a set of flags.
> 1 => print trace (if something below is selected)
> 2 => trace sends
> 4 => trace block activations
> 8 => trace interpreter primitives
> 16 => trace events (context switches, GCs, etc)
> 32 => trace stack overflow
> 64 => send breakpoint on implicit receiver (Newspeak VM only)"
> traceFlags := aBooleanOrInteger isInteger
> ifTrue: [aBooleanOrInteger]
> ifFalse: [aBooleanOrInteger ifTrue: [6] ifFalse: [0]]
> --

Thanks Eliot, that helps a lot!

Regards,

-Martin