"Craig A. Berry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> At 4:58 PM -0500 7/2/01, Patrick Spinler wrote:
>
>>I can try to remember how to cause the VMS debugger to
>>break on entry into a module which hasn't been loaded yet, and thus get
>>useful debugging info on the VMS-Queue module to Dan S.
>
> The general incantation in the debugger is something like
>
> set image imagename
> set module modulename
> set break Routine_Name
>
> You might have to step past the PERL_SYS_INIT in perlmain before you
> can do that. On occasion I think I've had to step past the loading
> of the shareable image in DL_VMS and then set break for a particular
> routine in the image just loaded.
What I usually do is insert a call to gmtime() early in the Perl script,
then do a
set image DBGPERLSHR
set module VMS
set break PERL_MY_GMTIME
when the breakpoint fires, then all of the shareable images and
initialization stuff should be done.
The main reasons for using gmtime is that it's unlikely to be in the
code you're debugging, it's a simple Perl command that maps to a subroutine
call, and since I messed with my_gmtime I can remember it easily :)
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