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| author | Peter Scott <Peter@PSDT.com> | 2002-01-24 00:51:34 -0800 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2002-01-24 20:58:15 +0000 |
| commit | 848805551b0f28dd093c1130af7aa30922a60349 (patch) | |
| tree | 36a8fee414bdc24b358a3a8f1f453d4b8547f09d /pod/perldebguts.pod | |
| parent | 3ea3bee8a95a927c659af25645be0ba9b310d492 (diff) | |
| download | perl-848805551b0f28dd093c1130af7aa30922a60349.tar.gz | |
perldebguts.pod [bleadperl]
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diff --git a/pod/perldebguts.pod b/pod/perldebguts.pod index 827bb2f7d0..c46dfd99df 100644 --- a/pod/perldebguts.pod +++ b/pod/perldebguts.pod @@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ F<INSTALL> podpage in the Perl source tree. For example, whenever you call Perl's built-in C<caller> function from the package DB, the arguments that the corresponding stack -frame was called with are copied to the @DB::args array. The -general mechanisms is enabled by calling Perl with the B<-d> switch, the +frame was called with are copied to the C<@DB::args> array. The +general mechanism is enabled by calling Perl with the B<-d> switch, the following additional features are enabled (cf. L<perlvar/$^P>): =over 4 @@ -111,11 +111,12 @@ The minimal working debugger consists of one line sub DB::DB {} -which is quite handy as contents of C<PERL5DB> environment +which you could even fit into the C<PERL5DB> environment variable: $ PERL5DB="sub DB::DB {}" perl -d your-script +although it doesn't do anything that tells you it's working... Another brief debugger, slightly more useful, could be created with only the line: |