Original bug ID: 1561
Reporter: administrator
Assigned to: @xclerc
Status: closed (set by @xavierleroy on 2011-05-29T10:20:32Z)
Resolution: fixed
Priority: normal
Severity: feature
Fixed in version: 3.11.0
Category: ~DO NOT USE (was: OCaml general)

Bug description

Full_Name: chris quinn
Version: 3.06
OS:
Submission from: 212.42.169.63 (212.42.169.63)

hello.

it would be very nice if in building a debug application version
an access to the trace (as per ocamlrun -b) for logging purposes and perhaps
allowing continued execution/reset.

stderr and a shell wrapper is awkward and complicates matters, and should
be reserved for really catastrophic events like segfaults.
keeping such error handling within the app is neat and portable.

how about a

val trace: exn -> string

or if above not appropriate,

val capture_trace: (string -> unit) -> ('a -> 'b) -> 'a -> 'b

addition to Printexc?

cheers.

• chris