On Monday 23 July 2001 14:05, Dave Storrs wrote:
> No, I do not mean something like Devel::DProf; that is a
> module. I mean something that is in the core binary, the same way that
> the perl debugger is in the core binary.
Except that the perl debugger is not in the perl binary. There are hooks in
the binary that a program may use for debugging, profiling, and such. perl
-d simply invokes one of those programs by default.
In some sense, these hooks could simply be replaced by the previously
mentioned (BEGIN|END) (BLOCK|STATEMENT) structure - since that is mainly what
they are.
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Bryan C. Warnock
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