Author: Carl Friedrich Bolz <cfb...@gmx.de> Branch: extradoc Changeset: r5648:77b4cdab6a0a Date: 2016-07-08 11:43 +0200 http://bitbucket.org/pypy/extradoc/changeset/77b4cdab6a0a/
Log: some typos and a link diff --git a/blog/draft/revdb.rst b/blog/draft/revdb.rst --- a/blog/draft/revdb.rst +++ b/blog/draft/revdb.rst @@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ A "reverse debugger" is a debugger where you can go forward and backward in time. It is an uncommon feature, at least in the open source world, but I have no idea why. I have used `undodb-gdb`_ and -`rr`_, which are reverse debugger for C code, and I can only say that -it saved me many, many days of poking around blindly in gdb. +`rr`_, which are reverse debuggers for C code, and I can only say that +they saved me many, many days of poking around blindly in gdb. The PyPy team is pleased to give you "RevPDB", a reverse-debugger similar to ``rr`` but for Python. @@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ equivalents. There is also ``go TIME`` to jump directly to the specified time. (Right now the debugger only stops at "line start" events, not at function entry or exit, which makes some cases a bit -surprizing: for example, a ``step`` from the return statement of +surprising: for example, a ``step`` from the return statement of function ``foo()`` will jump directly to the caller's caller, if the caller's current line was ``return foo() + 2``, because no "line start" event occurs in the caller after ``foo()`` returns to it.) @@ -401,9 +401,11 @@ because it would require systematic changes everywhere. The most obvious and successful examples are the GC and the JIT. But there have been many other experiments along the same lines, from the -so-called "stackless transformation" in the early days, to the STM +so-called `stackless transformation`_ in the early days, to the STM version of PyPy. +.. _`stackless transformation`: https://bitbucket.org/pypy/extradoc/raw/tip/eu-report/D07.1_Massive_Parallelism_and_Translation_Aspects-2007-02-28.pdf + RevPDB works in a similar way. It is a version of PyPy in which some operations are systematically replaced with other operations. _______________________________________________ pypy-commit mailing list pypy-commit@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-commit
