I'm only commenting on the name of the variable you have chosen here, not the
patch itself. I wonder, if it is such a VMS specific operation, whether the
name of the OS would not be better to be included somehow, something like:
PERL_EXCEPTION_VMS_DEBUG
Just a thought?
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Ciao
Richard Foley
On Saturday 04 February 2006 22:04, John E. Malmberg wrote:
> This patch allows the Perl user to set a logical name
> PERL_EXCEPTION_DEBUG that causes Perl to invoke the VMS debugger before
> having the default fatal exception handler in Perl cause a fatal exit.
>
> The two files when renamed to being .com and .ini allow a test to be
> done with that feature. I am not sure how to integrate these into the
> vmsish.t test environment.
>
> This feature was needed to debug a problem where an access violation was
> being signaled when a Perl test script was run normally, but not when
> the failing Perl was run starting in debug.
>
> -John
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Personal Opinion Only
