Re: Adding a command to aid in debugging Octave

"John W. Eaton" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.octave.maintainers
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 5/19/20 12:47 PM, Andrew Janke wrote:
> 
> 
> On 5/14/20 3:41 PM, Carlo De Falco wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>> Il giorno 14 mag 2020, alle ore 19:25, John W. Eaton <[email protected]> ha scritto:
>>>
>>> What's the right thing for Mac systems?
>>
>> this seems to work for me :
>>
>> system (sprintf ("osascript -e 'tell application \"Terminal\" to do script \"lldb -p %d\"'", getpid ()))
>>
>> the escaping looks a bit tricky though so it would be nice if someone else could verify it ...
>>
>> c.
> 
> Works for me in Octave 4.4.1 on macOS 10.14.6.

Thanks for the info about how to start the debugger on MacOS systems.

I pushed a changeset with a version of the new __debug_octave__ command 
to the stable branch and merged with default.

I also updated the information on the wiki about debugging Octave:

   https://wiki.octave.org/Debugging_Octave


jwe
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