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    "Provide a script execution tracing callback in libbitcoinkernel.",
    "Allow external debuggers and language bindings to inspect opcode execution and stack states step-by-step."
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    "Waiting on author: open bug report from w0xlt needs code changes before further review."
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    "Broad concept support for script debugging features (furszy, w0xlt, theStack, haanhvu).",
    "Prior code structure and API design suggestions resolved (alexanderwiederin, stringintech).",
    "Open nonblocking bug report on assertion failure with null error pointers (w0xlt)."
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      "P3 because it adds an optional developer and tooling feature to the kernel C API without affecting core node operation.",
      "Valuable for external consumers like rust-bitcoinkernel building script debuggers, but easily deferrable."
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  "problem": "External applications and debuggers built on libbitcoinkernel lack visibility into internal script evaluation steps, making it difficult to write interactive script debuggers or trace interpreter execution.",
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    "An assertion failure triggers when tracing is enabled and EvalScript is invoked with a null serror pointer (e.g. in CheckSignetBlockSolution).",
    "Oversized scripts are rejected before ScriptTraceScope is instantiated, preventing BEGIN and END trace frames from being emitted."
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    "Opaque C API types and getters adopted instead of exposing internal struct layouts.",
    "Enum conversions between internal and kernel wrapper types made exhaustive.",
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