On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 06:45:00AM -0500, Dave Rolsky wrote: > On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: > > > Fergal, actually, is apparently writing a stack trace module. While > > doing so, he found and reported a bug concerning what happens when you > > tie %SIG : it doesn't work until you insert a value in it. (Bug #30926.) > > > > > > http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=rt-3.0.11-30926-93061.2.56136439978242%40perl.org > > I refer Fergal and anyone else interested to Devel::StackTrace and > Sig::PackageScoped on CPAN.
The summary is not quite correct. I am no longer writing a stack tracing module, a small patch to diagnostics.pm got me what I wanted. The module I was originally writing was in fact based on your very fine Devel::StackTrace. Unfortunately Sig::PackagedScope wouldn't help as it localises signal handlers whereas I need something global. It's weird that after all this time perl doesn't have a well known switch that turns on stack traces. I certainly didn't know that diagnostics.pm could do it. It only ever gets mentioned as a tool for beginners, F
