RE: [debugger] break on watch ?

[email protected] ("Bob Goolsby (bogoolsb)") Tue, 04 Nov 2003 08:26:35 -0800
Newsgroups perl.debugger
Message-ID <[email protected]>
True, but are we running 5.8.x in production?

Also, isn't 'w' (lowercase) "window" -- show a patch of code? Not unlike 
the '-' and 'l' commands?

B

At 07:55 AM 11/4/2003 +0100, [email protected] wrote:

> >For the Debugger, take a look at the W command -- Set Watch
> >Point (doc in
> >Camel, under "Debugger Commands > Tracing"
> >
>
>Make that the 'w' command.
>
>Uppercase 'W' is deprecated as of 5.8.0.
>
>Richard Foley
>---
>Ciao - shorter than Aufwiedersehen
>
> >
> >B
> >
> >At 08:55 PM 11/3/2003 +0200, Gabor Szabo wrote:
> >
> >>I am looking in either the built in debugger or ptkdb.
> >>
> >>Is there a way to set a 'floating' break point that will
> >>stop the code execution when the value of a variable changes ?
> >>Or when the value of a variable receives a certain value ?
> >>
> >>Better yet when a hash changes ?
> >>
> >>The point is that I don't know the code, I have know idea
> >>where is this variable changed and there are lots of places
> >in the code
> >>where it can change.
> >>
> >>thanks
> >>    Gabor
> >
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> >
> >
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