On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Nicholas Clark wrote:
[talking about dynamically intering the debugger]
>
> Can anyone see a sane way to do it?
>
> Better still, can anyone see a viable way to do it on perl5?
Python does this. There's basically a hook after every
statement, and you can put whatever you wan
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 03:33:11PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> So, the sequence is:
>
> 1) Connect to the control socket
> 2) Peg parrot with SIGUSR[12]
> 3) Profit!
>
> No, wait, #3 isn't right... :)
Thinking about it, I don't see why we need #2 either
Assuming that we have the event system
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> It would be really useful to be able to attach the perl6 debugger to a
> running parrot VM, and start debugging, without having the speed hit
> up to that point of debugging. gdb and similar rely on kernel help to
> do their attaching to regular running
I was having a chat with [someone who doesn't like to be name checked] last
night and he said that the perl debugger is often useless at solving
problems. For a compiled language, one can attach gdb or similar to a
running process after it's got itself into a state, whereas with perl one
either has
