Re: Stacks, registers, and bytecode. (Oh, my!)

[Dan Sugalski]

At 04:20 PM 6/4/2001 -0400, Uri Guttman wrote:
>then regexes can be also debugged in detail with the perl debugger.
>that assumes the debugger has access to single stepping ops which is an
>intriguing idea. BTW this is the kind of feature that dan wanted the
>debugger PDD to have. having this feature supported and running early
>on, would allow us to debug the compiler and optimizer using our own
>tool. in fact if the debugger supported remote control as well as
>internal, then it could be developed in parallel in perl5. this would be
>a very useful thing to have during the development of the full perl 6.

Regexes will be able to be debugged in detail regardless of how the regex 
engine's implemented. If we go separate, you'll just single-step through 
the regex ops rather than the perl ones.

                                        Dan

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