Re: [Announce] Second Alpha release of a Lua debugger

[Steve Heller <steve@...>]

On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 22:33:53 -0500, Rici Lake <lua@ricilake.net>
wrote:

>Rici Lake wrote:
>> In a spurt of energy over Easter, I wrote a simple console-based 
>> debugger for Lua, which I hope will prove useful. I've set up a
>> CVSTrac (temporarily) at http://primero.ricilake.net:8008/ldb/index
>
>I've now done a partial implementation of breakpoints (no conditional
>breakpoints nor tracepoints, although I should be able to add those
>fairly soon.)
>
>You can examine files in the CVS, or get the complete tarball from:
>http://primero.ricilake.net/lua/ldb-25.tar.gz  There have been some
>changes from the previous version; in particular, the breakpoint
>support is a separate file.
>
>Comments and suggestions are welcome.

Looks very nice for an alpha product. I do have a couple of questions,
though:

1. I think line 35 of ldb-break.lua should read:

"local breakcalls, breakrets"

rather than

"local breakcall, breakret"

as the latter causes the code to fail the "strict" check during
compilation.

2. How do I actually use breakpoints? I don't seem to be able to get
them to do anything. I can set them, but then if I do a "c" to
continue, they seem to be ignored. Also, if I call "ldb()" to invoke
the debugger, then try to do "s" or "n", I get a message "Not inside
breakpoint". Do you have an example of how to use them?

Thanks.

Steve