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

[Rici Lake <lua@...>]

Steve Heller wrote:
> --- Rici Lake <lua@ricilake.net> wrote:
>
> > > 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?
> >
> > Yeah, I should have explained that better. The
> > documentation lags the
> > code a bit, but I'm trying to finish it all up in my
> > spare time this
> > week.
> >
> > Basically, the easiest way to use breakpoints is to
> > start the program
> > you're debugging with the ldb script included in the
> > distro. You just
> > do:
> >    ldb myprog.lua #arguments if any
>
> Maybe I'm just dense, but it doesn't look as though
> arguments are being passed to "myprog.lua". I looked
> at the code but didn't see exactly how that works. Do
> I need a literal "#" in the line before the arguments,
> or what?

They should be being passed in the 'arg' global, as usual.

I had forgotten that the Lua standalone passes arguments to
the chunk as well, available in ...

I've added this feature to ldb-break in CVS.

It does not yet handle lua-interpreter style option arguments
(-i -l etc.), and it would be really nice if it used readline
to do i/o. But it doesn't, yet :)