Re: TIP #86 (was Re: Debug API in the core?)


Donal K. Fellows wrote:
Eckhard Lehmann wrote:
I just browsed the TIP list and saw that an appropriate TIP (#86) has
already been made and a patch (against Tcl8.4.9) is supplied. The
status is "draft" - what exactly does that mean... is it what it sounds
like? Can this one go in 8.5?

You think it's in a fit state? Might be time to do a formal review then,
see if someone in the TCT is happy to sponsor a vote.

I spent yesterday's evening to patch 8.4.13 and test it. The concept
seems nice and powerful, but the new commands are a bit buggy
(inacceptable crashes in [trace breakpopint] and [trace execution] when
called with wrong arguments and the like).

At the moment, it's not very clear to me how to implement a debugger on
top of it, but that's probably, because I didn't dive deep enough.
My conclusion is (from a users point of view), that it is a good idea
and worth to follow, but it's not finished completely. There has to go
some work into the patch to fix bugs and update it for 8.5.


Eckhard

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