On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Simon Cozens wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 08:52:03PM +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> > macro languages and symbolic debuggers don't mix well.
>
> Generated output would be Real Life C. I'm thinking something along the lines
> of
> perl vtable.pl < vtable.spec > vtable.c
> which would work just fine with symbolic debuggers.
I think he meant that using a symbolic debugger is hard, not that it
wouldn't work. After all, when GDB is tell you that:
(*fooz).blazt[10].mark[0]->set(fungle(10));
Is causing a seg fault and all you wrote was:
$fooz->set(10);
You've got to get pretty smart to figure out what's going south.
-sam
