Debugging Features - Guile Reference Manual

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3.4 Debugging Features

Guile includes debugging tools to help you work out what is going wrong when a program signals an error or behaves differently to how you would expect. This chapter describes how to use these tools.

Broadly speaking, Guile's debugging support allows you to do two things:

specify breakpoints — points in the execution of a program where execution should pause so you can see what is going on
examine in detail the “scene of the crime” — in other words, the execution context at a breakpoint, or when the last error occurred.

The details are more complex and more powerful ...