Add Acc debugging functionality similar to Debug.Trace #485
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Description
To make it easier to debug Accelerate programs, this PR adds functionality to inspect intermediate values of a computation, similar to what
Debug.Trace
provides for Haskell programs.Note that arrays are printed in their internal representation (using 'ArraysR'), which causes that tuples or custom data types are shown differently. In the current setup it is not possible to show them in the surface representation, as we do not have the link between those two representations. This link could be stored by storing the
Arrays
type class or a conversion function in theAtrace
constructor, but then we wouldn't be able to implement lifting to Template Haskell any more.The debugging is currently only supported on Acc-level. You can thus only inspect values during an Acc-computation. It is not yet possible to inspect values within Exp-context, which we may want to add in the feature. For GPU backends this may be more difficult to add though.
Motivation and context
This change makes it easier to debug Accelerate programs, which has been requested often.
How has this been tested?
I tested this in my Delta stepping implementation.
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