Tracing execution of Lua Sripts - debugging

I know you can use the debug library of lua to get some tracing info/debugging. But the information is in pieces. So I am wondering if there is a way to trace the execution of a Lua script. A step by step process. it would be required and it will automatically go thru at every execution step To produce a report such as the following;
Called: function xyz from : Table abc
It has n parameters
Param 1: apples
Param 2: oranges
.
.
It has m returns
return 1: red
return 2: yellow
.
.
Called: function xyz2 from : Table abc2
It has n parameters
Param 1: pears
Param 2: bananas
.
.
It has m reruns
return 1: heavy
return 2: light
.
.
and so on....

Here is some code that used to be distributed in the Lua tarball. It's from 2005 and still works fine.
-- trace calls
-- example: lua -ltrace-calls bisect.lua
local level=0
local function hook(event)
local t=debug.getinfo(3)
io.write(level," >>> ",string.rep(" ",level))
if t~=nil and t.currentline>=0 then io.write(t.short_src,":",t.currentline," ") end
t=debug.getinfo(2)
if event=="call" then
level=level+1
else
level=level-1 if level<0 then level=0 end
end
if t.what=="main" then
if event=="call" then
io.write("begin ",t.short_src)
else
io.write("end ",t.short_src)
end
elseif t.what=="Lua" then
io.write(event," ",t.name or "(Lua)"," <",t.linedefined,":",t.short_src,">")
else
io.write(event," ",t.name or "(C)"," [",t.what,"] ")
end
io.write("\n")
end
debug.sethook(hook,"cr")
level=0

Related

Get line number where first occurrence of a value appears?

I have a CSV file like below:
E Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Run 5 Run 6 Mean
1 0.7019 0.6734 0.6599 0.6511 0.701 0.6977 0.680833333
2 0.6421 0.6478 0.6095 0.608 0.6525 0.6285 0.6314
3 0.6039 0.6096 0.563 0.5539 0.6218 0.5716 0.5873
4 0.5564 0.5545 0.5138 0.4962 0.5781 0.5154 0.535733333
5 0.5056 0.4972 0.4704 0.4488 0.5245 0.4694 0.485983333
I'm trying to use find the row number where the final column has a value below a certain range. For example, below 0.6.
Using the above CSV file, I want to return 3 because E = 3 is the first row where Mean <= 0.60. If there is no value below 0.6 I want to return 0. I am in effect returning the value in the first column based on the final column.
I plan to initialize this number as a constant in gnuplot. How can this be done? I've tagged awk because I think it's related.
In case you want a gnuplot-only version... if you use a file remove the datablock and replace $Data by your filename in " ".
Edit: You can do it without a dummy table, it can be done shorter with stats (check help stats). Even shorter than the accepted solution (well, we are not at code golf here), but additionally platform-independent because it's gnuplot-only.
Furthermore, in case E could be any number, i.e. 0 as well, then it might be better
to first assign E = NaN and then compare E to NaN (see here: gnuplot: How to compare to NaN?).
Script:
### conditional extraction into a variable
reset session
$Data <<EOD
E Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Run 5 Run 6 Mean
1 0.7019 0.6734 0.6599 0.6511 0.701 0.6977 0.680833333
2 0.6421 0.6478 0.6095 0.608 0.6525 0.6285 0.6314
3 0.6039 0.6096 0.563 0.5539 0.6218 0.5716 0.5873
4 0.5564 0.5545 0.5138 0.4962 0.5781 0.5154 0.535733333
5 0.5056 0.4972 0.4704 0.4488 0.5245 0.4694 0.485983333
EOD
E = NaN
stats $Data u ($8<=0.6 && E!=E? E=$1 : 0) nooutput
print E
### end of script
Result:
3.0
Actually, OP wants to return E=0 if the condition was not met. Then the script would be like this:
E=0
stats $Data u ($8<=0.6 && E==0? E=$1 : 0) nooutput
Another awk. You could initialize the default return value to var ret in BEGIN but since it's 0 there is really no point as empty var+0 produces the same effect. If the threshold value of 0.6 is not met before the ENDis reached, that is returned. If it is met, exit invokes the END and ret is output:
$ awk '
NR>1 && $NF<0.6 { # final column has a value below a certain range
ret=$1 # I want to return 3 because E = 3
exit
}
END {
print ret+0
}' file
Output:
3
Something like this should do the trick:
awk 'NR>1 && $8<.6 {print $1;fnd=1;exit}END{if(!fnd){print 0}}' yourfile

Tool/Algorithm for text comparision after every key hit

I am struggling to find a text comparison tool or algorithm that can compare an expected text against the current state of the text being typed.
I will have an experimentee typewrite a text that he has in front of his eyes. My idea is to compare the current state of the text against the expected text whenever something is typed. That way I want to find out when and what the subject does wrong (I also want to find errors that are not in the resulting text but were in the intermediate text for some time).
Can someone point me in a direction?
Update #1
I have access to the typing data in a csv format:
This is example output data of me typing "foOBar". Every line has the form (timestamp, Key, Press/Release)
17293398.576653,F,P
17293398.6885,F,R
17293399.135282,LeftShift,P
17293399.626881,LeftShift,R
17293401.313254,O,P
17293401.391732,O,R
17293401.827314,LeftShift,P
17293402.073046,O,P
17293402.184859,O,R
17293403.178612,B,P
17293403.301748,B,R
17293403.458137,LeftShift,R
17293404.966193,A,P
17293405.077869,A,R
17293405.725405,R,P
17293405.815159,R,R
In Python
Given your input csv file (I called it keyboard_records.csv)
17293398.576653,F,P
17293398.6885,F,R
17293399.135282,LeftShift,P
17293399.626881,LeftShift,R
17293401.313254,O,P
17293401.391732,O,R
17293401.827314,LeftShift,P
17293402.073046,O,P
17293402.184859,O,R
17293403.178612,B,P
17293403.301748,B,R
17293403.458137,LeftShift,R
17293404.966193,A,P
17293405.077869,A,R
17293405.725405,R,P
17293405.815159,R,R
The following code does the following:
Read its content and store it in a list named steps
For each step in steps recognizes what happened and
If it was a shift press or release sets a flag (shift_on) accordingly
If it was an arrow pressed moves the cursor (index of current where we insert characters) – if it the cursor is at the start or at the end of the string it shouldn't move, that's why those min() and max()
If it was a letter/number/symbol it adds it in curret at cursor position and increments cursor
Here you have it
import csv
steps = [] # list of all actions performed by user
expected = "Hello"
with open("keyboard.csv") as csvfile:
for row in csv.reader(csvfile, delimiter=','):
steps.append((float(row[0]), row[1], row[2]))
# Now we parse the information
current = [] # text written by the user
shift_on = False # is shift pressed
cursor = 0 # where is the cursor in the current text
for step in steps:
time, key, action = step
if key == 'LeftShift':
if action == 'P':
shift_on = True
else:
shift_on = False
continue
if key == 'LeftArrow' and action == 'P':
cursor = max(0, cursor-1)
continue
if key == 'RightArrow' and action == 'P':
cursor = min(len(current), cursor+1)
continue
if action == 'P':
if shift_on is True:
current.insert(cursor, key.upper())
else:
current.insert(cursor, key.lower())
cursor += 1
# Now you can join current into a string
# and compare current with expected
print(''.join(current)) # printing current (just to see what's happening)
else:
# What to do when a key is released?
# Depends on your needs...
continue
To compare current and expected have a look here.
Note: by playing around with the code above and a few more flags you can make it recognize also symbols. This will depend on your keyboard. In mine Shift + 6 = &, AltGr + E = € and Ctrl + Shift + AltGr + è = {. I think this is a good point to start.
Update
Comparing 2 texts isn't a difficult task and you can find tons of pages on the web about it.
Anyway I wanted to present you an object oriented approach to the problem, so I added the compare part that I previously omitted in the first solution.
This is still a rough code, without primary controls over the input. But, as you asked, this is pointing you in a direction.
class UserText:
# Initialize UserText:
# - empty text
# - cursor at beginning
# - shift off
def __init__(self, expected):
self.expected = expected
self.letters = []
self.cursor = 0
self.shift = False
# compares a and b and returns a
# list containing the indices of
# mismatches between a and b
def compare(a, b):
err = []
for i in range(min(len(a), len(b))):
if a[i] != b[i]:
err.append(i)
return err
# Parse a command given in the
# form (time, key, action)
def parse(self, command):
time, key, action = command
output = ""
if action == 'P':
if key == 'LeftShift':
self.shift = True
elif key == 'LeftArrow':
self.cursor = max(0, self.cursor - 1)
elif key == 'RightArrow':
self.cursor = min(len(self.letters), self.cursor + 1)
else:
# Else, a letter/number was pressed. Let's
# add it to self.letters in cursor position
if self.shift is True:
self.letters.insert(self.cursor, key.upper())
else:
self.letters.insert(self.cursor, key.lower())
self.cursor += 1
########## COMPARE WITH EXPECTED ##########
output += "Expected: \t" + self.expected + "\n"
output += "Current: \t" + str(self) + "\n"
errors = UserText.compare(str(self), self.expected[:len(str(self))])
output += "\t\t"
i = 0
for e in errors:
while i != e:
output += " "
i += 1
output += "^"
i += 1
output += "\n[{} errors at time {}]".format(len(errors), time)
return output
else:
if key == 'LeftShift':
self.shift = False
return output
def __str__(self):
return "".join(self.letters)
import csv
steps = [] # list of all actions performed by user
expected = "foobar"
with open("keyboard.csv") as csvfile:
for row in csv.reader(csvfile, delimiter=','):
steps.append((float(row[0]), row[1], row[2]))
# Now we parse the information
ut = UserText(expected)
for step in steps:
print(ut.parse(step))
The output for the csv file above was:
Expected: foobar
Current: f
[0 errors at time 17293398.576653]
Expected: foobar
Current: fo
[0 errors at time 17293401.313254]
Expected: foobar
Current: foO
^
[1 errors at time 17293402.073046]
Expected: foobar
Current: foOB
^^
[2 errors at time 17293403.178612]
Expected: foobar
Current: foOBa
^^
[2 errors at time 17293404.966193]
Expected: foobar
Current: foOBar
^^
[2 errors at time 17293405.725405]
I found the solution to my own question around a year ago. Now i have time to share it with you:
In their 2003 paper 'Metrics for text entry research: An evaluation of MSD and KSPC, and a new unified error metric', R. William Soukoreff and I. Scott MacKenzie propose three major new metrics: 'total error rate', 'corrected error rate' and 'not corrected error rate'. These metrics have become well established since the publication of this paper. These are exaclty the metrics i was looking for.
If you are trying to do something similiar to what i did, e.g. compare the writing performance on different input devices this is the way to go.

In VHDL is there a way of limiting the size of a string with a variable value from a process?

My goal is to write a string to a file where the size of the string will vary. At the moment I have made the string very large so that there is no overflow but is there a way to make it so that the size of the string is the exact number of characters I'm placing into it? I've tried something like the code below but it gives me an error unknown identifier "address count" I think it is because address count is a variable declared in a process and address count is constantly changing. Is there any way around this?
signal address_map :string (1 to address_count);
many thanks
leo
"My goal is to write a string to a file." Hence, lets just focus on that.
Step 1: reference the file IO packages (recommended to turn on VHDL-2008):
use std.textio.all ;
-- use ieee.std_logic_textio.all ; -- include if not using VHDL-2008
Step 2: Declare your file
file MyFile : TEXT open WRITE_MODE is "MyFile.txt";
Step 3: Create a buffer:
TestProc : process
variable WriteBuf : line ;
begin
write ... -- see step 4
writeline ... -- see step 5
Step 4: Use write to write into the buffer (in the process TestProc):
write(WriteBuf, string'("State = ") ) ; -- Any VHDL version
write(WriteBuf, StateType'image(State)) ;
swrite(WriteBuf, " at time = " ); -- VHDL-2008 simplification
write(WriteBuf, NOW, RIGHT, 12) ;
Step 5: Write the buffer to the file (in the process TestProc):
writeline(MyFile, WriteBuf) ;
Alternate Steps 3-5: Use built-in VHDL Write with to_string:
Write(MyFile, "State = " & to_string(State) &
", Data = " & to_hstring(Data) &
" at time " & to_string(NOW, 1 ns) ) ;
Alternate Steps 1-5: Use OSVVM (see http://osvvm.org) (requires VHDL-2008):
library osvvm ;
use osvvm.transcriptpkg.all ; -- all printing goes to same file
. . .
TestProc : process
begin
TranscriptOpen("./results/test1.txt") ;
Print("State = " & to_string(State) &
", Data = " & to_hstring(Data) &
" at time " & to_string(NOW, 1 ns) ) ;
One hard but flexible solution is to use dynamic allocation features of VHDL (copied from ADA).
You have to use an access of string (it is roughly like a "pointer to a string" in C)
type line is access string;
you event don't have to do it because line is already declared in std.textio package.
Ok, the problem next is that you can't use an access type for a signal, so you have to use a shared variable:
shared variable address_map: line;
And finally you have to allocate, read and write to this line:
--Example in a function/procedure/process:
--free a previously allocated string:
if address_map /= NULL then
deallocate(address_map);
end if;
--allocate a new string:
address_map:=new string (1 to address_count);
address_map(1 to 3):="xyz";
--we have here:
-- address_map(1)='y'
-- address_map(2 to 3)="yz"
-- address_map.all = "xyz"
Notice the use of new/deallocate (like malloc/free in C or free/delete in C++).
It is not easy to handle this kind of code, I recommend you to read the documentation of VHDL keywords "new", "deallocate" and "access" (easily found with your favorite search engine) or feel free to ask more questions.
You can also use the READ (read the whole line into a string) and WRITE (append a string to the line) functions from std.textio package.

Getting fortran runtime error: end of file

I have recently learned how to work with basic files in Fortran
and I assumed it was as simple as:
open(unit=10,file="data.dat")
read(10,*) some_variable, somevar2
close(10)
So I can't understand why this function I wrote is not working.
It compiles fine but when I run it it prints:
fortran runtime error:end of file
Code:
Function Load_Names()
character(len=30) :: Staff_Name(65)
integer :: i = 1
open(unit=10, file="Staff_Names.txt")
do while(i < 65)
read(10,*) Staff_Name(i)
print*, Staff_Name(i)
i = i + 1
end do
close(10)
end Function Load_Names
I am using Fortran 2008 with gfortran.
A common reason for the error you report is that the program doesn't find the file it is trying to open. Sometimes your assumptions about the directory in which the program looks for files at run-time will be wrong.
Try:
using the err= option in the open statement to write code to deal gracefully with a missing file; without this the program crashes, as you have observed;
or
using the inquire statement to figure out whether the file exists where your program is looking for it.
You can check when a file has ended. It is done with the option IOSTAT for read statement.
Try:
Function Load_Names()
character(len=30) :: Staff_Name(65)
integer :: i = 1
integer :: iostat
open(unit=10, file="Staff_Names.txt")
do while(i < 65)
read(10,*, IOSTAT=iostat) Staff_Name(i)
if( iostat < 0 )then
write(6,'(A)') 'Warning: File containts less than 65 entries'
exit
else if( iostat > 0 )then
write(6,'(A)') 'Error: error reading file'
stop
end if
print*, Staff_Name(i)
i = i + 1
end do
close(10)
end Function Load_Names
Using Fortran 2003 standard, one can do the following to check if the end of file is reached:
use :: iso_fortran_env
character(len=1024) :: line
integer :: u1,stat
open (newunit=u1,action='read',file='input.dat',status='old')
ef: do
read(u1,'A',iostat=stat) line
if (stat == iostat_end) exit ef ! end of file
...
end do ef
close(u1)
Thanks for all your help i did fix the code:
Function Load_Names(Staff_Name(65))!Loads Staff Names
character(len=30) :: Staff_Name(65)
integer :: i = 1
open(unit=10, file="Staff_Names.txt", status='old', action='read')!opens file for reading
do while(i < 66)!Sets Set_Name() equal to the file one string at a time
read(10,*,end=100) Staff_Name(i)
i = i + 1
end do
100 close(10)!closes file
return!returns Value
end Function Load_Names
I needed to change read(10,*) to read(10,*,END=100)
so it knew what to do when it came to the end the file
as it was in a loop I assume.
Then your problem was that your file was a row vector, and it was likely
giving you this error immediately after reading the first element, as #M.S.B. was suggesting.
If you have a file with a NxM matrix and you read it in this way (F77):
DO i=1,N
DO j=1,M
READ(UNIT,*) Matrix(i,j)
ENDDO
ENDDO
it will load the first column of your file in the first row of your matrix and will give you an error as soon as it reaches the end of the file's first column, because the loop enforces it to read further lines and there are no more lines (if N<M when j=N+1 for example). To read the different columns you should use an implicit loop, which is why your solution worked:
DO i=1,N
READ(UNIT,*) (Matrix(i,j), j=1,M)
ENDDO
I am using GNU Fortran 5.4.0 on the Ubuntu system 16.04. Please check your file if it is the right one you are looking for, because sometimes files of the same name are confusing, and maybe one of them is blank. As you may check the file path if it is in the same working directory.

Cucumber and variables internal to methods called indirectly

Please note: I am new to TDD & cucumber, so the answer may be very easy.
I am creating a basic image editor for a test (the image is just a sequence of letters).
I have written a Cucumber story:
Scenario Outline: edit commands
Given I start the editor
And a 3 x 3 image is created
When I type the command <command>
Then the image should look like <image>
The step
Scenarios: colour single pixel
| command | image |
| L 1 2 C | OOOCOOOOO |
always fails, returning
expected: "OOOCOOOOO"
got: " OOOOOOOO" (using ==) (RSpec::Expectations::ExpectationNotMetError)
This is the step code:
When /^I type the command (.*)$/ do |command|
#editor.exec_cmd(command).should be
end
The function exec_cmd in the program recognizes the command and launches the appropriate action. In this case it will launch the following
def colorize_pixel(x, y, color)
if !#image.nil?
x = x.to_i
y = y.to_i
pos = (y - 1) * #image[:columns] + x
#image[:content].insert(pos, color).slice!(pos - 1)
else
#messenger.puts "There's no image. Create one first!"
end
end
However, this always fails unless I hardcode the values of the two local variables (pos and color) in the function in the program itself.
Why? It doesn's seem I'm doing anything wrong in the program itself: the function does what it's supposed to do and those two variables are only useful locally. So I'd think this is a problem with my use of cucumber. How do I properly test this?
---edit---
def exec_cmd(cmd = nil)
if !cmd.nil?
case cmd.split.first
when "I" then create_image(cmd[1], cmd[2])
when "S" then show_image
when "C" then clear_table
when "L" then colorize_pixel(cmd[1], cmd[2], cmd[3])
else
#messenger.puts "Incorrect command. " + "Commands available: I C L V H F S X."
end
else
#messenger.puts "Please enter a command."
end
end
When /^I type the command (.*)$/ do |command|
#output = #editor.exec_cmd(command)
end
Then /^the image should look like (.)*$/ do |expected_image|
#output.should == expected_image
end
Hope this may help you.
It's not a cucumber issue.
The problem was that, in exec_cmd, split was called only in the "case" clause, not in the "when"s. This meant that, since the command's format was "a 1 2 b", cmd[1] in the "when" would call the second character of the string, a space, not the second value of the array, and the other functions would convert that to_i, returning 0.
I changed exec_cmd like this:
def exec_cmd(cmd = nil)
if !cmd.nil?
cmd = cmd.split
case cmd.first
when "I" then create_image(cmd[1], cmd[2])
[...]
end
which fixed the issue.

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