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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 |