Dear Fabrice,
IMHO there will be no -trace- command for Mata, because it is a
compiled language. Since the internal structure of the compiled mata
files is not disclosed it is unclear whether the source code could be
reconstructed from it one-to-one. My feeling is that there is some
information loss on the way. So what you may see is a sequence of
meaningless p-codes, if anything. However, you get plenty of
compile-time error messages, as well as runtime error messages.
set matadebug on
issues a couple of more messages when mata is running, but not really
helpful. See my earlier post on it here:
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2009-01/msg00434.html
Best regards, Sergiy Radyakin
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Martin Weiss <[email protected]> wrote:
> <>
>
> Debugging will be a battleground in -mata- for some time. -trace- does not work there. As a beginner, 99% of the time conformability issues get in your way, and luckily -mata- is vocal about them...
>
>
> HTH
> Martin
> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
>> Datum: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:45:55 +0100
>> Von: "Fabrice" <[email protected]>
>> An: [email protected]
>> Betreff: st: Trace in Mata (the debugging command, not the matrix function)
>
>> One of my concern while I'm being drawn to use Mata is that I have not
>> been
>> able to identify the trace programming command, the one allowing to follow
>> code execution, in order to debug code (so, NOT the trace as the sum of
>> diagonal).
>>
>> Would anyone know how to do this?
>>
>> Fabrice
>>
>> PS: I tried to find the answer on my own, but using search engine on the
>> expression "mata trace" returned tons of pages about "trace" as the matrix
>> expression, I could not find the needle in the haystack talking about
>> "trace" related to debugging
>>
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