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1package diagnostics;
2
3=head1 NAME
4
5diagnostics, splain - produce verbose warning diagnostics
6
7=head1 SYNOPSIS
8
9Using the C<diagnostics> pragma:
10
11 use diagnostics;
12 use diagnostics -verbose;
13
14 enable diagnostics;
15 disable diagnostics;
16
17Using the C<splain> standalone filter program:
18
19 perl program 2>diag.out
20 splain [-v] [-p] diag.out
21
22Using diagnostics to get stack traces from a misbehaving script:
23
24 perl -Mdiagnostics=-traceonly my_script.pl
25
26=head1 DESCRIPTION
27
28=head2 The C<diagnostics> Pragma
29
30This module extends the terse diagnostics normally emitted by both the
31perl compiler and the perl interpreter (from running perl with a -w
32switch or C<use warnings>), augmenting them with the more
33explicative and endearing descriptions found in L<perldiag>. Like the
34other pragmata, it affects the compilation phase of your program rather
35than merely the execution phase.
36
37To use in your program as a pragma, merely invoke
38
39 use diagnostics;
40
41at the start (or near the start) of your program. (Note
42that this I<does> enable perl's B<-w> flag.) Your whole
43compilation will then be subject(ed :-) to the enhanced diagnostics.
44These still go out B<STDERR>.
45
46Due to the interaction between runtime and compiletime issues,
47and because it's probably not a very good idea anyway,
48you may not use C<no diagnostics> to turn them off at compiletime.
49However, you may control their behaviour at runtime using the
50disable() and enable() methods to turn them off and on respectively.
51
52The B<-verbose> flag first prints out the L<perldiag> introduction before
53any other diagnostics. The $diagnostics::PRETTY variable can generate nicer
54escape sequences for pagers.
55
56Warnings dispatched from perl itself (or more accurately, those that match
57descriptions found in L<perldiag>) are only displayed once (no duplicate
58descriptions). User code generated warnings a la warn() are unaffected,
59allowing duplicate user messages to be displayed.
60
61This module also adds a stack trace to the error message when perl dies.
62This is useful for pinpointing what
63caused the death. The B<-traceonly> (or
64just B<-t>) flag turns off the explanations of warning messages leaving just
65the stack traces. So if your script is dieing, run it again with
66
67 perl -Mdiagnostics=-traceonly my_bad_script
68
69to see the call stack at the time of death. By supplying the B<-warntrace>
70(or just B<-w>) flag, any warnings emitted will also come with a stack
71trace.
72
73=head2 The I<splain> Program
74
75While apparently a whole nuther program, I<splain> is actually nothing
76more than a link to the (executable) F<diagnostics.pm> module, as well as
77a link to the F<diagnostics.pod> documentation. The B<-v> flag is like
78the C<use diagnostics -verbose> directive.
79The B<-p> flag is like the
80$diagnostics::PRETTY variable. Since you're post-processing with
81I<splain>, there's no sense in being able to enable() or disable() processing.
82
83Output from I<splain> is directed to B<STDOUT>, unlike the pragma.
84
85=head1 EXAMPLES
86
87The following file is certain to trigger a few errors at both
88runtime and compiletime:
89
90 use diagnostics;
91 print NOWHERE "nothing\n";
92 print STDERR "\n\tThis message should be unadorned.\n";
93 warn "\tThis is a user warning";
94 print "\nDIAGNOSTIC TESTER: Please enter a <CR> here: ";
95 my $a, $b = scalar <STDIN>;
96 print "\n";
97 print $x/$y;
98
99If you prefer to run your program first and look at its problem
100afterwards, do this:
101
102 perl -w test.pl 2>test.out
103 ./splain < test.out
104
105Note that this is not in general possible in shells of more dubious heritage,
106as the theoretical
107
108 (perl -w test.pl >/dev/tty) >& test.out
109 ./splain < test.out
110
111Because you just moved the existing B<stdout> to somewhere else.
112
113If you don't want to modify your source code, but still have on-the-fly
114warnings, do this:
115
116 exec 3>&1; perl -w test.pl 2>&1 1>&3 3>&- | splain 1>&2 3>&-
117
118Nifty, eh?
119
120If you want to control warnings on the fly, do something like this.
121Make sure you do the C<use> first, or you won't be able to get
122at the enable() or disable() methods.
123
124 use diagnostics; # checks entire compilation phase
125 print "\ntime for 1st bogus diags: SQUAWKINGS\n";
126 print BOGUS1 'nada';
127 print "done with 1st bogus\n";
128
129 disable diagnostics; # only turns off runtime warnings
130 print "\ntime for 2nd bogus: (squelched)\n";
131 print BOGUS2 'nada';
132 print "done with 2nd bogus\n";
133
134 enable diagnostics; # turns back on runtime warnings
135 print "\ntime for 3rd bogus: SQUAWKINGS\n";
136 print BOGUS3 'nada';
137 print "done with 3rd bogus\n";
138
139 disable diagnostics;
140 print "\ntime for 4th bogus: (squelched)\n";
141 print BOGUS4 'nada';
142 print "done with 4th bogus\n";
143
144=head1 INTERNALS
145
146Diagnostic messages derive from the F<perldiag.pod> file when available at
147runtime. Otherwise, they may be embedded in the file itself when the
148splain package is built. See the F<Makefile> for details.
149
150If an extant $SIG{__WARN__} handler is discovered, it will continue
151to be honored, but only after the diagnostics::splainthis() function
152(the module's $SIG{__WARN__} interceptor) has had its way with your
153warnings.
154
155There is a $diagnostics::DEBUG variable you may set if you're desperately
156curious what sorts of things are being intercepted.
157
158 BEGIN { $diagnostics::DEBUG = 1 }
159
160
161=head1 BUGS
162
163Not being able to say "no diagnostics" is annoying, but may not be
164insurmountable.
165
166The C<-pretty> directive is called too late to affect matters.
167You have to do this instead, and I<before> you load the module.
168
169 BEGIN { $diagnostics::PRETTY = 1 }
170
171I could start up faster by delaying compilation until it should be
172needed, but this gets a "panic: top_level" when using the pragma form
173in Perl 5.001e.
174
175While it's true that this documentation is somewhat subserious, if you use
176a program named I<splain>, you should expect a bit of whimsy.
177
178=head1 AUTHOR
179
180Tom Christiansen <F<tchrist@mox.perl.com>>, 25 June 1995.
181
182=cut
183
184use strict;
185use 5.009001;
186use Carp;
187$Carp::Internal{__PACKAGE__.""}++;
188
189our $VERSION = '1.33';
190our $DEBUG;
191our $VERBOSE;
192our $PRETTY;
193our $TRACEONLY = 0;
194our $WARNTRACE = 0;
195
196use Config;
197my $privlib = $Config{privlibexp};
198if ($^O eq 'VMS') {
199 require VMS::Filespec;
200 $privlib = VMS::Filespec::unixify($privlib);
201}
202my @trypod = (
203 "$privlib/pod/perldiag.pod",
204 "$privlib/pods/perldiag.pod",
205 );
206# handy for development testing of new warnings etc
207unshift @trypod, "./pod/perldiag.pod" if -e "pod/perldiag.pod";
208(my $PODFILE) = ((grep { -e } @trypod), $trypod[$#trypod])[0];
209
210$DEBUG ||= 0;
211my $WHOAMI = ref bless []; # nobody's business, prolly not even mine
212
213local $| = 1;
214local $_;
215local $.;
216
217my $standalone;
218my(%HTML_2_Troff, %HTML_2_Latin_1, %HTML_2_ASCII_7);
219
220CONFIG: {
221 our $opt_p = our $opt_d = our $opt_v = our $opt_f = '';
222
223 unless (caller) {
224 $standalone++;
225 require Getopt::Std;
226 Getopt::Std::getopts('pdvf:')
227 or die "Usage: $0 [-v] [-p] [-f splainpod]";
228 $PODFILE = $opt_f if $opt_f;
229 $DEBUG = 2 if $opt_d;
230 $VERBOSE = $opt_v;
231 $PRETTY = $opt_p;
232 }
233
234 if (open(POD_DIAG, $PODFILE)) {
235 warn "Happy happy podfile from real $PODFILE\n" if $DEBUG;
236 last CONFIG;
237 }
238
239 if (caller) {
240 INCPATH: {
241 for my $file ( (map { "$_/$WHOAMI.pm" } @INC), $0) {
242 warn "Checking $file\n" if $DEBUG;
243 if (open(POD_DIAG, $file)) {
244 while (<POD_DIAG>) {
245 next unless
246 /^__END__\s*# wish diag dbase were more accessible/;
247 print STDERR "podfile is $file\n" if $DEBUG;
248 last INCPATH;
249 }
250 }
251 }
252 }
253 } else {
254 print STDERR "podfile is <DATA>\n" if $DEBUG;
255 *POD_DIAG = *main::DATA;
256 }
257}
258if (eof(POD_DIAG)) {
259 die "couldn't find diagnostic data in $PODFILE @INC $0";
260}
261
262
263%HTML_2_Troff = (
264 'amp' => '&', # ampersand
265 'lt' => '<', # left chevron, less-than
266 'gt' => '>', # right chevron, greater-than
267 'quot' => '"', # double quote
268
269 "Aacute" => "A\\*'", # capital A, acute accent
270 # etc
271
272);
273
274%HTML_2_Latin_1 = (
275 'amp' => '&', # ampersand
276 'lt' => '<', # left chevron, less-than
277 'gt' => '>', # right chevron, greater-than
278 'quot' => '"', # double quote
279
280 "Aacute" => "\xC1" # capital A, acute accent
281
282 # etc
283);
284
285%HTML_2_ASCII_7 = (
286 'amp' => '&', # ampersand
287 'lt' => '<', # left chevron, less-than
288 'gt' => '>', # right chevron, greater-than
289 'quot' => '"', # double quote
290
291 "Aacute" => "A" # capital A, acute accent
292 # etc
293);
294
295our %HTML_Escapes;
296*HTML_Escapes = do {
297 if ($standalone) {
298 $PRETTY ? \%HTML_2_Latin_1 : \%HTML_2_ASCII_7;
299 } else {
300 \%HTML_2_Latin_1;
301 }
302};
303
304*THITHER = $standalone ? *STDOUT : *STDERR;
305
306my %transfmt = ();
307my $transmo = <<EOFUNC;
308sub transmo {
309 #local \$^W = 0; # recursive warnings we do NOT need!
310EOFUNC
311
312my %msg;
313{
314 print STDERR "FINISHING COMPILATION for $_\n" if $DEBUG;
315 local $/ = '';
316 local $_;
317 my $header;
318 my @headers;
319 my $for_item;
320 my $seen_body;
321 while (<POD_DIAG>) {
322
323 sub _split_pod_link {
324 $_[0] =~ m'(?:([^|]*)\|)?([^/]*)(?:/("?)(.*)\3)?'s;
325 ($1,$2,$4);
326 }
327
328 unescape();
329 if ($PRETTY) {
330 sub noop { return $_[0] } # spensive for a noop
331 sub bold { my $str =$_[0]; $str =~ s/(.)/$1\b$1/g; return $str; }
332 sub italic { my $str = $_[0]; $str =~ s/(.)/_\b$1/g; return $str; }
333 s/C<<< (.*?) >>>|C<< (.*?) >>|[BC]<(.*?)>/bold($+)/ges;
334 s/[IF]<(.*?)>/italic($1)/ges;
335 s/L<(.*?)>/
336 my($text,$page,$sect) = _split_pod_link($1);
337 defined $text
338 ? $text
339 : defined $sect
340 ? italic($sect) . ' in ' . italic($page)
341 : italic($page)
342 /ges;
343 s/S<(.*?)>/
344 $1
345 /ges;
346 } else {
347 s/C<<< (.*?) >>>|C<< (.*?) >>|[BC]<(.*?)>/$+/gs;
348 s/[IF]<(.*?)>/$1/gs;
349 s/L<(.*?)>/
350 my($text,$page,$sect) = _split_pod_link($1);
351 defined $text
352 ? $text
353 : defined $sect
354 ? qq '"$sect" in $page'
355 : $page
356 /ges;
357 s/S<(.*?)>/
358 $1
359 /ges;
360 }
361 unless (/^=/) {
362 if (defined $header) {
363 if ( $header eq 'DESCRIPTION' &&
364 ( /Optional warnings are enabled/
365 || /Some of these messages are generic./
366 ) )
367 {
368 next;
369 }
370 s/^/ /gm;
371 $msg{$header} .= $_;
372 for my $h(@headers) { $msg{$h} .= $_ }
373 ++$seen_body;
374 undef $for_item;
375 }
376 next;
377 }
378
379 # If we have not come across the body of the description yet, then
380 # the previous header needs to share the same description.
381 if ($seen_body) {
382 @headers = ();
383 }
384 else {
385 push @headers, $header if defined $header;
386 }
387
388 unless ( s/=item (.*?)\s*\z//s) {
389
390 if ( s/=head1\sDESCRIPTION//) {
391 $msg{$header = 'DESCRIPTION'} = '';
392 undef $for_item;
393 }
394 elsif( s/^=for\s+diagnostics\s*\n(.*?)\s*\z// ) {
395 $for_item = $1;
396 }
397 elsif( /^=back/ ) { # Stop processing body here
398 undef $header;
399 undef $for_item;
400 $seen_body = 0;
401 next;
402 }
403 next;
404 }
405
406 if( $for_item ) { $header = $for_item; undef $for_item }
407 else {
408 $header = $1;
409
410 $header =~ s/\n/ /gs; # Allow multi-line headers
411 }
412
413 # strip formatting directives from =item line
414 $header =~ s/[A-Z]<(.*?)>/$1/g;
415
416 # Since we strip "(\.\s*)\n" when we search a warning, strip it here as well
417 $header =~ s/(\.\s*)?$//;
418
419 my @toks = split( /(%l?[dxX]|%[ucp]|%(?:\.\d+)?[fs])/, $header );
420 if (@toks > 1) {
421 my $conlen = 0;
422 for my $i (0..$#toks){
423 if( $i % 2 ){
424 if( $toks[$i] eq '%c' ){
425 $toks[$i] = '.';
426 } elsif( $toks[$i] =~ /^%(?:d|u)$/ ){
427 $toks[$i] = '\d+';
428 } elsif( $toks[$i] =~ '^%(?:s|.*f)$' ){
429 $toks[$i] = $i == $#toks ? '.*' : '.*?';
430 } elsif( $toks[$i] =~ '%.(\d+)s' ){
431 $toks[$i] = ".{$1}";
432 } elsif( $toks[$i] =~ '^%l*([pxX])$' ){
433 $toks[$i] = $1 eq 'X' ? '[\dA-F]+' : '[\da-f]+';
434 }
435 } elsif( length( $toks[$i] ) ){
436 $toks[$i] = quotemeta $toks[$i];
437 $conlen += length( $toks[$i] );
438 }
439 }
440 my $lhs = join( '', @toks );
441 $lhs =~ s/(\\\s)+/\\s+/g; # Replace lit space with multi-space match
442 $transfmt{$header}{pat} =
443 " s\a^\\s*$lhs\\s*\a\Q$header\E\as\n\t&& return 1;\n";
444 $transfmt{$header}{len} = $conlen;
445 } else {
446 my $lhs = "\Q$header\E";
447 $lhs =~ s/(\\\s)+/\\s+/g; # Replace lit space with multi-space match
448 $transfmt{$header}{pat} =
449 " s\a^\\s*$lhs\\s*\a\Q$header\E\a\n\t && return 1;\n";
450 $transfmt{$header}{len} = length( $header );
451 }
452
453 print STDERR "$WHOAMI: Duplicate entry: \"$header\"\n"
454 if $msg{$header};
455
456 $msg{$header} = '';
457 $seen_body = 0;
458 }
459
460
461 close POD_DIAG unless *main::DATA eq *POD_DIAG;
462
463 die "No diagnostics?" unless %msg;
464
465 # Apply patterns in order of decreasing sum of lengths of fixed parts
466 # Seems the best way of hitting the right one.
467 for my $hdr ( sort { $transfmt{$b}{len} <=> $transfmt{$a}{len} }
468 keys %transfmt ){
469 $transmo .= $transfmt{$hdr}{pat};
470 }
471 $transmo .= " return 0;\n}\n";
472 print STDERR $transmo if $DEBUG;
473 eval $transmo;
474 die $@ if $@;
475}
476
477if ($standalone) {
478 if (!@ARGV and -t STDIN) { print STDERR "$0: Reading from STDIN\n" }
479 while (defined (my $error = <>)) {
480 splainthis($error) || print THITHER $error;
481 }
482 exit;
483}
484
485my $olddie;
486my $oldwarn;
487
488sub import {
489 shift;
490 $^W = 1; # yup, clobbered the global variable;
491 # tough, if you want diags, you want diags.
492 return if defined $SIG{__WARN__} && ($SIG{__WARN__} eq \&warn_trap);
493
494 for (@_) {
495
496 /^-d(ebug)?$/ && do {
497 $DEBUG++;
498 next;
499 };
500
501 /^-v(erbose)?$/ && do {
502 $VERBOSE++;
503 next;
504 };
505
506 /^-p(retty)?$/ && do {
507 print STDERR "$0: I'm afraid it's too late for prettiness.\n";
508 $PRETTY++;
509 next;
510 };
511 # matches trace and traceonly for legacy doc mixup reasons
512 /^-t(race(only)?)?$/ && do {
513 $TRACEONLY++;
514 next;
515 };
516 /^-w(arntrace)?$/ && do {
517 $WARNTRACE++;
518 next;
519 };
520
521 warn "Unknown flag: $_";
522 }
523
524 $oldwarn = $SIG{__WARN__};
525 $olddie = $SIG{__DIE__};
526 $SIG{__WARN__} = \&warn_trap;
527 $SIG{__DIE__} = \&death_trap;
528}
529
530sub enable { &import }
531
532sub disable {
533 shift;
534 return unless $SIG{__WARN__} eq \&warn_trap;
535 $SIG{__WARN__} = $oldwarn || '';
536 $SIG{__DIE__} = $olddie || '';
537}
538
539sub warn_trap {
540 my $warning = $_[0];
541 if (caller eq $WHOAMI or !splainthis($warning)) {
542 if ($WARNTRACE) {
543 print STDERR Carp::longmess($warning);
544 } else {
545 print STDERR $warning;
546 }
547 }
548 goto &$oldwarn if defined $oldwarn and $oldwarn and $oldwarn ne \&warn_trap;
549};
550
551sub death_trap {
552 my $exception = $_[0];
553
554 # See if we are coming from anywhere within an eval. If so we don't
555 # want to explain the exception because it's going to get caught.
556 my $in_eval = 0;
557 my $i = 0;
558 while (my $caller = (caller($i++))[3]) {
559 if ($caller eq '(eval)') {
560 $in_eval = 1;
561 last;
562 }
563 }
564
565 splainthis($exception) unless $in_eval;
566 if (caller eq $WHOAMI) { print STDERR "INTERNAL EXCEPTION: $exception"; }
567 &$olddie if defined $olddie and $olddie and $olddie ne \&death_trap;
568
569 return if $in_eval;
570
571 # We don't want to unset these if we're coming from an eval because
572 # then we've turned off diagnostics.
573
574 # Switch off our die/warn handlers so we don't wind up in our own
575 # traps.
576 $SIG{__DIE__} = $SIG{__WARN__} = '';
577
578 $exception =~ s/\n(?=.)/\n\t/gas;
579
580 die Carp::longmess("__diagnostics__")
581 =~ s/^__diagnostics__.*?line \d+\.?\n/
582 "Uncaught exception from user code:\n\t$exception"
583 /re;
584 # up we go; where we stop, nobody knows, but i think we die now
585 # but i'm deeply afraid of the &$olddie guy reraising and us getting
586 # into an indirect recursion loop
587};
588
589my %exact_duplicate;
590my %old_diag;
591my $count;
592my $wantspace;
593sub splainthis {
594 return 0 if $TRACEONLY;
595 for (my $tmp = shift) {
596 local $\;
597 local $!;
598 ### &finish_compilation unless %msg;
599 s/(\.\s*)?\n+$//;
600 my $orig = $_;
601 # return unless defined;
602
603 # get rid of the where-are-we-in-input part
604 s/, <.*?> (?:line|chunk).*$//;
605
606 # Discard 1st " at <file> line <no>" and all text beyond
607 # but be aware of messages containing " at this-or-that"
608 my $real = 0;
609 my @secs = split( / at / );
610 return unless @secs;
611 $_ = $secs[0];
612 for my $i ( 1..$#secs ){
613 if( $secs[$i] =~ /.+? (?:line|chunk) \d+/ ){
614 $real = 1;
615 last;
616 } else {
617 $_ .= ' at ' . $secs[$i];
618 }
619 }
620
621 # remove parenthesis occurring at the end of some messages
622 s/^\((.*)\)$/$1/;
623
624 if ($exact_duplicate{$orig}++) {
625 return &transmo;
626 } else {
627 return 0 unless &transmo;
628 }
629
630 my $short = shorten($orig);
631 if ($old_diag{$_}) {
632 autodescribe();
633 print THITHER "$short (#$old_diag{$_})\n";
634 $wantspace = 1;
635 } elsif (!$msg{$_} && $orig =~ /\n./s) {
636 # A multiline message, like "Attempt to reload /
637 # Compilation failed"
638 my $found;
639 for (split /^/, $orig) {
640 splainthis($_) and $found = 1;
641 }
642 return $found;
643 } else {
644 autodescribe();
645 $old_diag{$_} = ++$count;
646 print THITHER "\n" if $wantspace;
647 $wantspace = 0;
648 print THITHER "$short (#$old_diag{$_})\n";
649 if ($msg{$_}) {
650 print THITHER $msg{$_};
651 } else {
652 if (0 and $standalone) {
653 print THITHER " **** Error #$old_diag{$_} ",
654 ($real ? "is" : "appears to be"),
655 " an unknown diagnostic message.\n\n";
656 }
657 return 0;
658 }
659 }
660 return 1;
661 }
662}
663
664sub autodescribe {
665 if ($VERBOSE and not $count) {
666 print THITHER &{$PRETTY ? \&bold : \&noop}("DESCRIPTION OF DIAGNOSTICS"),
667 "\n$msg{DESCRIPTION}\n";
668 }
669}
670
671sub unescape {
672 s {
673 E<
674 ( [A-Za-z]+ )
675 >
676 } {
677 do {
678 exists $HTML_Escapes{$1}
679 ? do { $HTML_Escapes{$1} }
680 : do {
681 warn "Unknown escape: E<$1> in $_";
682 "E<$1>";
683 }
684 }
685 }egx;
686}
687
688sub shorten {
689 my $line = $_[0];
690 if (length($line) > 79 and index($line, "\n") == -1) {
691 my $space_place = rindex($line, ' ', 79);
692 if ($space_place != -1) {
693 substr($line, $space_place, 1) = "\n\t";
694 }
695 }
696 return $line;
697}
698
699
7001 unless $standalone; # or it'll complain about itself
701__END__ # wish diag dbase were more accessible