Showing function calls (like in stacktrace)

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Is there a way to show the functions called inside a function like in the stacktrace of error messages, even if the function returns successfully?

In other words, I would like to see something like [1]–[6] in the following error message, from the start to the end of a function call:

julia> broadcast(+, [1 2; 3 4], [1 2; 3 4; 5 6])
ERROR: DimensionMismatch("arrays could not be broadcast to a common size")
Stacktrace:
 [1] _bcs1(::Base.OneTo{Int64}, ::Base.OneTo{Int64}) at ./broadcast.jl:70
 [2] _bcs at ./broadcast.jl:63 [inlined]
 [3] broadcast_shape at ./broadcast.jl:57 [inlined] (repeats 2 times)
 [4] broadcast_indices at ./broadcast.jl:53 [inlined]
 [5] broadcast_c at ./broadcast.jl:311 [inlined]
 [6] broadcast(::Function, ::Array{Int64,2}, ::Array{Int64,2}) at ./broadcast.jl:434

I need this capability to debug semantic errors by showing all the functions visited and examine what went wrong. Currently I’m achieving this by successively calling which.

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Have you heard of Jupyter Notebook Viewer?

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TraceCalls isn’t super good at tracing Base code at the moment. You have to specify the functions manually, and Base tends to use a lot of eval, @generated and @inline, all of which aren’t traceable yet. But stay tuned!

BB = Base.Broadcast
broadcast_funs = (BB.broadcast, BB.broadcast_c, BB.broadcast_indices, BB.broadcast_shape, BB._bcs, BB._bcs1)
@trace broadcast_funs broadcast(+, [1 2; 3 4], [1 2; 3 4])
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Like display(stacktrace()) ?

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