► |  | Trace: Instrumentation to Show Function Calls

1 | Quick Instructions
2 | Installing Calltrace
3 | Calltrace Library

1`` Quick Instructions
2`` Installing Calltrace
3`` Calltrace Library
instrumenting-enabled
calltrace-eval-handler
annotate

Version: 5.0.2
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## Trace: Instrumentation to Show Function Calls

Calltrace is a tool that displays all calls to user procedures. It displays the arguments to the calls, and it indents to show the depth of the continuation.

### 1`` Quick Instructions

- Throw away ".zo" versions of your source

- Prefix your program with
  ( require trace)
  perhaps by starting racket with
  racket -l trace ...
  before arguments to load your program.

- Run your program

The trace module is odd; don’t import it into another module. Instead, the trace 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 trace, import trace/calltrace-lib. It contains all of the bindings described here, but it but does not set the current-eval parameter.

### 2`` Installing Calltrace

( require trace )

Invoking the trace module sets the evaluation handler (via current-eval) to instrument Racket source code.

NOTE: trace has no effect on code loaded as compiled byte code (i.e., from a ".zo" file) or native code (i.e., from a ".dll", ".so", or ".dylib" file).

Calltrace’s instrumentation can be explicitly disabled via the instrumenting-enabled parameter. Instrumentation is on by default. The instrumenting-enabled parameter affects only the way that source code is compiled, not the way that exception information is reported.

Do not load trace before writing ".zo" files. Calltrace instruments S-expressions with unprintable values; this works fine if the instrumented S-expression is passed to the default eval handler, but neither the S-expression nor its byte-code form can be marshalled to a string.

### 3`` Calltrace Library

( require trace/calltrace-lib )

The trace/calltrace-lib module provides functions that implement trace.

( instrumenting-enabled ) → boolean?
( instrumenting-enabled on?) → void?
on? : any/c

A parameter that determines whether tracing instrumentation is enabled.

(calltrace-eval-handler e) → any
e : any/c

A procedure suitable for use with current-eval, which instruments expressions for Calltrace output (when instrumentation is not disabled via instrumenting-enabled).

Requiring trace installs this procedure as the value for current-eval.

(annotate e) → syntax?
e : any/c

Instruments the expression e with Calltrace support. This function is normally used by calltrace-eval-handler.
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