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| author | Robert Spier <rspier@pobox.com> | 2001-09-20 15:45:03 -0700 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2001-09-21 12:12:09 +0000 |
| commit | 825b3abc9c41ac1909965c7d6268ae6e0bcebc0e (patch) | |
| tree | d0d23aa868eb80a089ab4b797a32bc1fe8a14545 /pod/perltodo.pod | |
| parent | 408dc35d26ca372a9b20cc32e609ae2e4c6bbe94 (diff) | |
| download | perl-825b3abc9c41ac1909965c7d6268ae6e0bcebc0e.tar.gz | |
Re: GDB Debugging Macros from mod_perl
Message-ID: <15274.54239.413929.49430@rls.cx>
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@12106
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diff --git a/pod/perltodo.pod b/pod/perltodo.pod index aa8545b089..fd991cb0b2 100644 --- a/pod/perltodo.pod +++ b/pod/perltodo.pod @@ -826,4 +826,16 @@ by SADAHIRO Tomoyuki have been included since 5.8.0. Collation? http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr10/ Normalization? http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr15/ +=head2 Create debugging macros + +Debugging macros (like printsv, dump) can make debugging perl inside a +C debugger much easier. A good set for gdb comes with mod_perl. +Something similar should be distributed with perl. + +The proper way to do this is to use and extend Devel::DebugInit. +Devel::DebugInit also needs to be extended to support threads. + +See p5p archives for late May/early June 2001 for a recent discussion +on this topic. + =cut |