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What's up with Devel::Trace? (Score:2)

by Simon (89) <simon-use-perl@perlhacker.org> on 2006.08.14 5:50 (#49355) Journal

If all you want is a trace of lines executed, Devel::Trace should do the trick for you.

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- Re:What's up with Devel::Trace? (Score:2)
  
  by Ovid (2709)
  
  Devel::Trace is really close to what I want. However, it doesn't allow me to control the filehandle I want to send the trace output to, so error messages I might need are comingled with the trace output. However, the reality is, I didn't find that module when I was searching (I was searching for strace :), so this is only an "after the fact" gripe.
  - Re:What's up with Devel::Trace? (Score:1)
    
    by jjore (6662)
    
    You could have just patched it. It'd have been easier. Also, your perl code transformation would have been easier to follow if the regex hadn't been obfuscated in that vim syntax.
    - Re:What's up with Devel::Trace? (Score:2)
      
      by Ovid (2709)
      
      Well, I just sent an email to Dominus asking if he's interested in patches for it. Amongst other things, it would be nice to pass in callbacks so I can have fine-grained control over what's being dumped out, including access to the debugger API. It would be nice if I don't start tracing until $x >= 3 or simply don't trace except when a particular variable changes.
- Re:What's up with Devel::Trace? (Score:2)
  
  by Ovid (2709)
  
  Oh, and thanks for pointing that module out.

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