Re: [jamboost] bjam debug mode

From: Rene Rivera (grafik666_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-02-23 16:12:33

[2003-02-18] David Abrahams wrote:

>
>I just got to thinking: it might not be all that hard to add a debug
>mode for bjam with breakpoints and an interactive prompt. That could
>have saved me lots of time in my recent work. I don't want to dive
>into that project unless other people think it would be of great
>benefit, though.

I don't know if it's of great benefit, but certainly some benefit. At
minimum I've wanted to have watch points, that is print some vars at some
point in the code, with an optional break/exit, without having to
"ECHO/EXIT".

So perhaps I would not go as far as doing an interactive debugger. But
instead a non-intrusive state inspection.

But I would really place another addition bjam ahead of such a job... We
really need a "output = SYSTEM ( command args * )" builtin.

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