I am currently building a patch that allows Perl to enter the OpenVMS
debugger when an exception occurs, if the the logical name
PERL_EXCEPTION_DEBUG is present.
What I could use some help in creating a perl script that would cause an
exception to be signaled so that I can verify that it works.
Also, to fully take advantage of this feature, all compiles should
always be /DEBUG/OPTIMIZE on ALPHA and I64 for non-debug builds.
On ALPHA and I64, the link procedure should always be /DSF which will
create a debug symbol file (.DSF) external to the image. This .DSF file
can be used in case the distributed binary needs debugging, but keeps
the binary files small.
I do not know how to change the build procedure to take advantage of
this on the three platforms because of it's complexity.
-John
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