[m-dev.] debugger command set
Zoltan Somogyi
zs at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Fri Nov 13 15:52:49 AEDT 1998
> - I would prefer `alias p print' rather than the current
> `alias p print *'; I find myself forever typing `p 1'.
Done.
> - If you type the wrong number of arguments, it would be
> better for the debugger to just say
>
> mdb: print: usage error -- type `help print' for help
>
> rather than for it to just print the help message, as it
> does currently.
> The behaviour of printing the help message without any
> indication of why it was printed is confusing, and
> it's annoying for a simple typo to cause so much output,
> since it scrolls all the useful stuff that you printed
> out previously off the screen.
I am in the process of doing this.
> - A command for printing the type of a variable would be nice.
> In fact, the `v' (vars) command which lists them could do that.
This will have to wait until after the release.
> - It would be helpful if the `up', `down', and `level' commands could
> print out a trace line showing where you are, like they do in gdb.
I will try to do this before the release.
Zoltan.
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