Re: Kind of a lookfor function

[Bill Denney]

On Mon, 30 May 2005, David Bateman wrote:

> This then breaks a nice little debugging trick for oct-files, where you 
> can run octave in gdb, call the help of an oct-file and then type ctrl-c 
> to return to gdb and since the oct-file is now loaded set a breakpoint 
> within it.. I'd not like to that functionality as it is to useful, 
> though there is probably a way around this in that help might not unload 
> the function but lookfor would... Ok all of this is not impossible, or 
> even that difficult, but its a bit of a pain.

This seems like a rather difficult method of debugging (at least for
someone who has never used gdb before).  Might it be feasible to make the 
breakpoint setting a function so that lay-users could do it?  I'm thinking 
something along the lines of:

x = stuff(y);
breakpoint
z = blah(x);

So that I could look at x (and the current space) in place.

Bill

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