Re: Re: Octave - stack trace in runtime mode possible?

[John W. Eaton]

On 08/27/2013 07:21 PM, Werner Koenig wrote:
> On 27.08.2013 22:35, c. wrote:
> > On 27 Aug 2013, at 18:30, Werner Koenig<address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > Hello Kai, hello list
> > >
> > > thank you for your quick response. Yes, I want to make a stack trace
> > > like in debug mode of octave.
> > > The purpose is, I want to evaluate in a subroutine, which function
> > > calls this routine and what
> > > is the linenumber of this call.
> > >
> > > So long
> > >
> > > Werner
> > you can either add the command 'keyboard' at the beginning of your
> > function or issue the command 'dbstop<function name>'
> > Octave will open a debug prompt whenever your function is called.
> >
> > At the debug prompt type 'dbstack' to see the full call stack
> > including line numbers.
> >
> > HTH,
> > c.
> Hello C., hello list
>
> that isn't a solution, because octave falls at both proposals in
> debug-mode and than i have todo something manually, but that is not what
> I want.
> Perhaps I wasn't clear enough in my previous mails. The subroutine needs
> this informations and there is no break welcome, the program has
> to be continued until it reached its normal end.

Just call dbstack:

  dbstack ();

will print out the "stopped in ..." message and

  x = dbstack ();

will return a structure with the stack info.

jwe