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Work on permitting pike code to be debugged interactively is underway, and currently exists as a rough proof of concept in branch bill/debugger-concept. The debugger requires pike to be compiled with --with-debug and can be enabled using --debugger option to pike, with enables a hilfe server on port 3333Current features of the POC:- Multiple breakpoints may be set and cleared independently.
- Hilfe interface
- Backtrace viewing
- Frame stack browsing (as part of backtrace frames)
- View locals (but names are not resolved)
- Modify locals
- Single stepping
- ContinueThings that need to be done:- Local name calculation
- Allow stepping state to be maintained for multiple threads
- Pass current thread to debugger engine
- Allow the debug session to stop execution without waiting for a breakpoint
- A programmatic interface to the debugger
- Step-over, in, return, etc. These require understanding of code structure
- Watchpoints?
- Efficiency improvements?
- Work to not require RTL debug
- Make ports configurableSet breakpoint using this method:Example of a debugging session:
$ telnet localhost 3333 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. Welcome to the Pike Debugger. > object bp = Debug.Debugger.add_breakpoint("/path/to/file.pike", 22); > object bp1 = Debug.Debugger.add_breakpoint("/path/to/file.pike", "/path/to/included_file.h", 2); > bp->enable(); > bp1->enable(); > go Breakpoint on /Users/hww3/bpt.pike:22 > backtrace; (1) Result: ({ /* 4 elements */ backtrace_frame(/Users/hww3/pike2/build/darwin-16.7.0-x86_64/master.pike:4148, _main(), Args: 1), backtrace_frame(-:1, `()(), Args: 1), backtrace_frame(/Users/hww3/bpt.pike:14, doit(), No args), backtrace_frame(/Users/hww3/bpt.h:2, whee(), Args: 1) }) > backtrace[-1]->locals(); (4) Result: ({ /* 3 elements */ "rad", 0, 0 }) > backtrace[-1]->set_local(1, "bar"); (5) Result: 0 > backtrace[-1]->locals(); (6) Result: ({ /* 3 elements */ "rad", "bar", 0 }) > step Stepping. Breakpoint on /Users/hww3/bpt.h:2 > goPowered by PikeWiki2