Merge pull request #9914 from 9999years/debugger-on-trace

Enter debugger on `builtins.trace` with an option

(cherry picked from commit 774e7ca5847ebc392eac2a124a8f12b24da4f65a)
Change-Id: If01e2110b3a128e639b05143227e365227d149f1

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/libexpr/primops.cc b/src/libexpr/primops.cc
index 30933e191..b5b28efcd 100644
--- a/src/libexpr/primops.cc
+++ b/src/libexpr/primops.cc
@@ -980,6 +980,10 @@ static void prim_trace(EvalState & state, const PosIdx pos, Value * * args, Valu
         printError("trace: %1%", args[0]->string.s);
     else
         printError("trace: %1%", ValuePrinter(state, *args[0]));
+    if (evalSettings.builtinsTraceDebugger && state.debugRepl && !state.debugTraces.empty()) {
+        const DebugTrace & last = state.debugTraces.front();
+        state.runDebugRepl(nullptr, last.env, last.expr);
+    }
     state.forceValue(*args[1], pos);
     v = *args[1];
 }
@@ -991,6 +995,12 @@ static RegisterPrimOp primop_trace({
       Evaluate *e1* and print its abstract syntax representation on
       standard error. Then return *e2*. This function is useful for
       debugging.
+
+      If the
+      [`debugger-on-trace`](@docroot@/command-ref/conf-file.md#conf-debugger-on-trace)
+      option is set to `true` and the `--debugger` flag is given, the
+      interactive debugger will be started when `trace` is called (like
+      [`break`](@docroot@/language/builtins.md#builtins-break)).
     )",
     .fun = prim_trace,
 });