# The following was supposedly scribed by
# Nick Wehr
# on Thursday 24 February 2005 02:20 am:
Sorry to leave you hanging on the inline-perl list.
>I've been looking all over the man pages for some information on
> debugging C code from within Inline. I've been using if (DEBUG)
> lines all over tracking down my problem code... is there an easier
> way to do this?
To be portable:
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/*#define DEBUG_PRINT*/
#ifdef DEBUG_PRINT
#define dbg_p(x) printf x
#else
#define dbg_p(x)
#endif
...
free(p);
dbg_p(("p free... DESTROY complete\n"));
...
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> Can I [cross fingers] somehow use a debugger? If
> not, what have you guys done to make this task less painful.
Hmm. How do you use a debugger on XS code? If you know that, you're
halfway there. Then you just have to get Inline to not
CLEAN_AFTER_BUILD. As far as automagic c-level debugging support from
within Inline, I don't think there's anything (though perldoc Inline::C
makes some reference to an OPTIMIZE => '-g' setting for use with gdb.)
--Eric
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