diff --git a/docs/README.md b/docs/README.md index dd1d40c420..f25a1c762a 100644 --- a/docs/README.md +++ b/docs/README.md @@ -4,3 +4,4 @@ * [Custom Hint Processor](./hint_processor/) * [How to run a cairo program with custom hints](./hint_processor/builtin_hint_processor) * [References parsing](./references_parsing/) +* [Tracer](./tracer/) diff --git a/docs/tracer/README.md b/docs/tracer/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e19c95a90d --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/tracer/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +# Cairo Tracer + +Cairo-rs offers a tracer which gives you a visualization of how your memory and registers change line after line as the VM executes the code. + +## Setting up the tracer + +To use the tracer, you need to build your the VM using the `with_tracer` feature flag. + +```bash +cargo build --release --features with_tracer +``` + +## Running the tracer + +Once the build in the above step is complete, you can use the `cairo-vm-cli` as you do normally with an additional argument `--tracer true`. This tells the VM to start a server where you can visualize the exection of your cairo program. + +```bash +target/release/cairo-vm-cli --layout --memory_file --trace_file --tracer true +``` + +### NOTE +> The `--memory_file` and `--trace_file` arguments are compulsary at the moment as the current code relocates the memory and trace only when these arguments are supplied. However, edits can be made in future versions to relocate if only the `--tracer` option is specified. + + +## Using the tracer + +![tracer](tracer.png) + +You can go to [http://127.0.0.1:8100/static/index.html](http://127.0.0.1:8100/static/index.html) to see the tracer. + +Use the following commands to visualize the code execution + +- `s` to go to the next step +- `Shift + s` to go to the previous step +- `n` to step over +- `N` to previous step over +- `o` to step out +- `b` to run until you reach the next breakpoint +- `B` to run until you reach the previous breakpoint diff --git a/docs/tracer/tracer.png b/docs/tracer/tracer.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..9cb29af0d9 Binary files /dev/null and b/docs/tracer/tracer.png differ