Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: [snip]
Perl seems a little more messy in that I can't find a documented C API to hook into the interpreter, but it looks as if it may be possible to cook something up with writing a new DB package [2] which uses XS call a C callback. The other issue is that unlike Python, the debug capability must be specified when creating the instance of interpreter rather than being able to enable/disable debugging on the fly so it may mean that two instances of the perl interpreter need to be maintained in memory - a standard instance and a debugging instance.
Debugging embedded perl has some significant challenges. You might find it interesting to see what can be done in the most famous embedded situation: mod_perl. See http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/debug.html
using ptkdb might be nice .... cheers andrew ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
