Think about Debugger tools

[Mikerah]

After working with MP-SPDZ, I noticed that it has a lack of debugger tools for tracing the execution of a program, from compilation to execution. In order to be effective with any such library, developers need a way to debug their MPC programs.
At a minimum, our debugger should allow for

• : Debugging compilation by creating an assembly output along with some important statistics
• : Debugging execution on 1 or more MPC nodes and outputs their local view of what they're executing.

[th4s]

Do you already have an idea of how to implement such a debugging functionality? Will it e.g. just be struct which can be attached to a VM or node, which offers some fine-grained logging functionality?

[Mikerah]

Yes, that's what I'm thinking. We can have a struct for both the VM and compiler since the information you'd want to see for both are different enough.