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authorBob Weinand <bobwei9@hotmail.com>2014-04-13 17:34:27 +0200
committerBob Weinand <bobwei9@hotmail.com>2014-04-13 17:34:27 +0200
commiteae91d9de78a44410c43c18bb42e83e09bd7c5ba (patch)
tree829f6d4e1aed14be526741c7328b16fb8096f3e1 /phpdbg_help.c
parentce7097fb607a43396aa2785cae07de4d6a196f74 (diff)
downloadphp-git-eae91d9de78a44410c43c18bb42e83e09bd7c5ba.tar.gz
Added help
Diffstat (limited to 'phpdbg_help.c')
-rw-r--r--phpdbg_help.c34
1 files changed, 32 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/phpdbg_help.c b/phpdbg_help.c
index 72038dc0fd..757dc769b3 100644
--- a/phpdbg_help.c
+++ b/phpdbg_help.c
@@ -334,6 +334,7 @@ phpdbg_help_text_t phpdbg_help_text[] = {
" **finish** continue up to end of the current execution frame" CR
" **leave** continue up to end of the current execution frame and halt after the calling instruction" CR
" **break** set a breakpoint at the specified target" CR
+" **watch"" set a watchpoint on $variable" CR
" **ev** evaluate some code" CR
" **clear** clear one or all breakpoints" CR
" **clean** clean the execution environment" CR CR
@@ -838,8 +839,8 @@ phpdbg_help_text_t phpdbg_help_text[] = {
" Set the prompt to a bold >" CR CR
" $P S c error red-bold" CR
-" Use red bold for errors" CR
-" " CR
+" Use red bold for errors" CR CR
+
" $P S b 4 off" CR
" Temporarily disable breakpoint 4. This can be subsequently reenabled by a **s b 4 on**." CR
//*********** check oplog syntax
@@ -904,5 +905,34 @@ phpdbg_help_text_t phpdbg_help_text[] = {
"Note **until** will trigger a \"not executing\" error if not executing."
},
+{"watch",
+"Sets watchpoints on variables as long as they are defined" CR
+"Passing no parameter to **watch**, lists all actually active watchpoints" CR
+"Subcommands of **watch**:" CR CR
+
+" **Type** **Alias** **Purpose**" CR
+" **array** **a** Sets watchpoint on array/object to observe if an entry is added or removed" CR
+" **recursive** **r** Watches variable recursively and automatically adds watchpoints if some entry is added to an array/object" CR
+" **delete** **d** Removes watchpoint" CR CR
+
+"Note when **recursive** watchpoints are removed, watchpoints on all the children are removed too"
+
+"**Examples**" CR CR
+" $P watch $array" CR
+" Set watchpoint on $array" CR CR
+
+" $P watch" CR
+" $array" CR CR
+
+" $P w r $obj" CR
+" Set recursive watchpoint on $obj" CR CR
+
+" $P w d $obj" CR
+" Removed watchpoint $obj" CR CR
+
+"Technical note: If using this feature with a debugger, you will get many segmentation faults, each time when a memory page containing a watched address is hit." CR
+" You then you can continue, phpdbg will remove the write protection, so that the program can continue." CR
+" If phpdbg could not handle that segfault, the same segfault is triggered again and this time phpdbg will abort."
+},
{NULL, NULL /* end of table marker */}
}; /* }}} */