Change 19858 by [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2003/06/26 20:21:53
perlhack update, by Steve Grazzini
about macro support in gdb and gcc.
Affected files ...
... //depot/perl/pod/perlhack.pod#70 edit
Differences ...
==== //depot/perl/pod/perlhack.pod#70 (text) ====
Index: perl/pod/perlhack.pod
--- perl/pod/perlhack.pod#69~19211~ Mon Apr 14 14:11:11 2003
+++ perl/pod/perlhack.pod Thu Jun 26 13:21:53 2003
@@ -1322,6 +1322,12 @@
produce by saying C<cpp -dM perl.c | sort>. Even then, F<cpp> won't
recursively apply the macros for you.
+B<NOTE>: Recent versions of F<gdb> have fairly good macro support, but
+in order to use it you'll need to compile perl with macro definitions
+included in the debugging information. Using F<gcc> version 3.1, this
+means configuring with C<-Doptimize=-g3>. Other compilers might use a
+different switch (if they support debugging macros at all).
+
=back
=head2 Dumping Perl Data Structures
End of Patch.
