The following commands relate to the declarative debugger. See Declarative debugging for details.
dd [-r] [-R] [-nnodes] [-ssearch-mode] [-ppassfile] [-ffailfile]
When searching for bugs the declarative debugger needs to keep portions of the
execution trace in memory. If it requires a new portion of the trace then it
needs to rerun the program. The ‘-nnodes’ or
‘--nodes nodes’ option tells the declarative debugger how
much of the execution trace to gather when it reruns the program. A higher
value for nodes requires more memory, but improves the
performance of the declarative debugger for long running programs since it will
not have to rerun the program as often.
The ‘-ssearch-mode’ or ‘--search-mode search-mode’
option tells the declarative debugger which
search mode to use. Valid search modes are ‘top_down’ (or ‘td’),
‘divide_and_query’ (or ‘dq’) and ‘suspicion_divide_and_query’
(or ‘sdq’).
‘top_down’ is the default when this option is not given.
Use the ‘-r’ or ‘--resume’ option to continue your previous
declarative debugging session. If the ‘--resume’ option is given and
there were no previous declarative debugging sessions then the option will be
ignored. A ‘dd --resume’ command can be issued at any event.
The ‘--search-mode’ option may be used with the ‘--resume’ option
to change the search mode of a previously started declarative debugging
session.
Use the ‘-R’ or ‘--reset-knowledge-base’ option to reset the
declarative debugger's knowledge base.
The declarative debugger will forget any previous answers that
have been supplied.
It will ask previous questions again if it needs to.
This option does not affect what predicates or modules are trusted.
The arguments supplied to the ‘--pass-trace-counts’ (or ‘-p’) and
‘--fail-trace-counts’ (or ‘-f’) options are either trace count
files or files containing a list of trace count files.
The supplied trace counts are used to assign
a suspicion to each event based on which parts of program were executed in
the failing test case(s), but not the passing test case(s).
This is used to guide the declarative debugger when
the suspicion-divide-and-query search mode is used. If the
suspicion-divide-and-query search mode is specified then either both the
‘-p’ and ‘-f’ options must be given, or the ‘fail_trace_counts’
and ‘pass_trace_counts’ configuration parameters must be set (using
the ‘set’ command).
trust module-name|proc-spec
Individual predicates or functions can be trusted by just giving the
predicate or function name. If there is more than one predicate or function
with the given name then a list of alternatives will be shown.
The entire Mercury standard library is trusted by default and can be
untrusted in the usual manner using the `untrust' command. To restore trusted
status to the Mercury standard library issue the command
`trust standard library' or just `trust std lib'.
See also `trusted' and `untrust'.
trusted
untrust num