NAME

feathers — a simple source-level debugger for CHICKEN Scheme

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

feathers runs a program compiled with CHICKEN Scheme and allows basic source-level debugging like setting breakpoints, single-stepping and inspection of procedure arguments and global variables.

The Scheme code must be compiled with debug-level 3 for debugging to be possible. Communication with the debugger takes place by exchanging messages over a TCP socket, the address and port being given by the environment variable CHICKEN_DEBUGGER which holds a connection address of the form ⟨ADDRESS⟩:⟨PORT⟩.

PROGRAM must give the path to the executable that is to be run, PATH is not searched.

The program accepts following arguments:

-help

Shows a list of supported command-line options.

-n

Do not load the default startup file .feathers.

-d

TODO: Document this

-dir DIRECTORY

Add DIRECTORY to the list of searched paths for locating source files.

-port PORT

Select a different TCP port than the default (9999).

ENVIRONMENT

The following environment variables change the behaviour of feathers:

CHICKEN_DEBUGGER

Should hold a TCP server address and port where the debugger is listening. This variable is set by the debugger when a program is run from it, and defaults to localhost:9999

EXIT STATUS

The feathers utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

SEE ALSO

chicken(1), csc(1), csi(1)

More information can be found in the CHICKEN User's Manual.

AUTHORS

The CHICKEN Team

BUGS

Submit bug reports by e-mail to chicken-janitors@nongnu.org