summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
-rw-r--r--pod/perltodo.pod9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perltodo.pod b/pod/perltodo.pod
index ad78744dbc..880fb16fce 100644
--- a/pod/perltodo.pod
+++ b/pod/perltodo.pod
@@ -898,6 +898,15 @@ L<http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2007-03/msg00481.html>
There is no method on tied filehandles to allow them to be called back by
formats.
+=head2 Propagate compilation hints to the debugger
+
+Currently a debugger started with -dE on the command-line doesn't see the
+features enabled by -E. More generally hints (C<$^H> and C<%^H>) aren't
+propagated to the debugger. Probably it would be a good thing to propagate
+hints from the innermost non-C<DB::> scope: this would make code eval'ed
+in the debugger see the features (and strictures, etc.) currently in
+scope.
+
=head2 Attach/detach debugger from running program
The old perltodo notes "With C<gdb>, you can attach the debugger to a running