[erlang-questions] diffrent emulator modes

[Serge Aleynikov]

Sanjaya Vitharana wrote:
> Hi Serge,
> 
> 1.) What is the diffrence between below each and every erlang emulator modes (found in erl_bif_info.c)? are there any docs discribing those?

Some of them are described in erts/erl documentation.  I put erl 
arguments below showing how to enable the feature.

> " [source]"
> " [64-bit]"

auto-detected

> " [smp:%bpu]"

-smp N

> " [async-threads:%d]"

+A N

> " [hipe]"

auto-detected

> " [kernel-poll:%s]"

+K true

> " [no-frag]"
> " [io-thread]"
> " [io-at-once]"
> " [port-tasks]"
> " [hybrid heap]"

-hybrid

> " [incremental GC]"
> " [type-assertions]"
> " [debug-compiled]"
> " [lock-checking]"
> " [purify-compiled]"
> " [valgrind-compiled]"
> 
> 
> 2.) How to configure & make erlang emulator in diffrent modes (above)

Support for most of the modes above are auto-detected by the configure 
script, so if your OS supports them, the emulator will as well.

> I am specially interested on below areas for debugging purposes (erlang port driver debugging)
> 
> type-assertions

I am not familiar with this one.

> debug compiled emulator
> Runing debug compiled emulator in gdb

run erl with -emu_args to determine emulator startup command.  Then do a 
"gdb /path/to/beam" and in gdb do "run ARGS_OF_BEAM" where ARGS_OF_BEAM 
are copied from the console output of -emu_args option.

> emulator compiled for valgrind

Never tried this one.

> 3.) how to run erlang in those modes ?

See above.

> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Sanjaya Vitharana
>