Re: Low Overhead Breakpoints (no hooks)

[steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Dan Tull <dtull@adobe.com> wrote:
> I recently made modifications to Lua for use in the Lua code editing
> and debugging environment used by the Lightroom team that I thought
> might be of interest to this list.
>
> We are using a modified Lua 5.1.2 at this point. If there is some
> interest in the details, I could probably map them into a patch for the
> changes based on a stock 5.1.4 version of Lua.

Very interesting; it's done exactly how debuggers work with native code.

I would definitely be interested in a patch against 5.1.4; I come
across cases where the debug hooks slow the debuggee down to the point
of uselessness.

steve d.