Debugging Haskell at assembly level
by scripting lldb in Python
Posted on August 1, 2014
Haskell programmers tend to spend far less time with debuggers than programmers in other languages. Partly this is because for pure code debuggers are of limited value anyway, and Haskell’s type system is so strong that a lot of bugs are caught at compile time rather than at runtime. Moreover, Haskell is a managed language – like Java, say – and errors are turned into exceptions. Unlike in unmanaged languages such as C “true” runtime errors such as segmentation faults almost never happen.