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| author | Richard Foley <richard.foley@rfi.net> | 2007-10-10 17:29:39 +0200 |
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| committer | Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com> | 2007-10-10 20:54:25 +0000 |
| commit | 9311160e8e005d634474952ba2e0841d81d67460 (patch) | |
| tree | 00cc48c018ea1558f0a8d70ea2b2050c9b4d91ce /pod/perldebug.pod | |
| parent | ed7c6c7f3745d11ad81e1c8eddc18c5a10326b01 (diff) | |
| download | perl-9311160e8e005d634474952ba2e0841d81d67460.tar.gz | |
add calling hints to perldebug.pod
Message-Id: <200710101529.39895.Richard.Foley@rfi.net>
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@32096
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perldebug.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perldebug.pod | 26 |
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldebug.pod b/pod/perldebug.pod index 8c6e940b41..252990139f 100644 --- a/pod/perldebug.pod +++ b/pod/perldebug.pod @@ -54,9 +54,33 @@ function with something that doesn't look like a debugger command, such as a leading C<;> or perhaps a C<+>, or by wrapping it with parentheses or braces. +=head2 Calling the debugger + +There are several ways to call the debugger: + +=over 4 + +=item perl -d program_name + +On the given program identified by C<program_name>. + +=item perl -d -e 0 + +Interactively supply an arbitrary C<expression> using C<-e>. + +=item perl -d:Ptkdb program_name + +Debug a given program via the C<Devel::Ptkdb> GUI. + +=item perl -dt threaded_program_name + +Debug a given program using threads (experimental). + +=back + =head2 Debugger Commands -The debugger understands the following commands: +The interactive debugger understands the following commands: =over 12 |