Mentioning perldebguts

[perl5.git] / lib / perl5db.pl

diff --git a/lib/perl5db.pl b/lib/perl5db.pl
index aab1a68..48ee09f 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/perl5db.pl
+++ b/lib/perl5db.pl
@@ -2,13 +2,16 @@ package DB;
 
 # Debugger for Perl 5.00x; perl5db.pl patch level:
 
-$VERSION = 1.14;
+$VERSION = 1.15;
 $header = "perl5db.pl version $VERSION";
 
 #
 # This file is automatically included if you do perl -d.
 # It's probably not useful to include this yourself.
 #
+# Before venturing further into these twisty passages, it is 
+# wise to read the perldebguts man page or risk the ire of dragons.
+#
 # Perl supplies the values for %sub.  It effectively inserts
 # a &DB'DB(); in front of every place that can have a
 # breakpoint. Instead of a subroutine call it calls &DB::sub with
@@ -25,14 +28,15 @@ $header = "perl5db.pl version $VERSION";
 # if caller() is called from the package DB, it provides some
 # additional data.
 #
-# The array @{$main::{'_<'.$filename}} is the line-by-line contents of
-# $filename.
+# The array @{$main::{'_<'.$filename}} (herein called @dbline) is the
+# line-by-line contents of $filename.
 #
-# The hash %{'_<'.$filename} contains breakpoints and action (it is
-# keyed by line number), and individual entries are settable (as
-# opposed to the whole hash). Only true/false is important to the
-# interpreter, though the values used by perl5db.pl have the form
-# "$break_condition\0$action". Values are magical in numeric context.
+# The hash %{'_<'.$filename} (herein called %dbline) contains
+# breakpoints and action (it is keyed by line number), and individual
+# entries are settable (as opposed to the whole hash). Only true/false
+# is important to the interpreter, though the values used by
+# perl5db.pl have the form "$break_condition\0$action". Values are
+# magical in numeric context.
 #
 # The scalar ${'_<'.$filename} contains $filename.
 #
@@ -254,6 +258,16 @@ $header = "perl5db.pl version $VERSION";
 #   + Fixed warnings generated by "p 42" (Print expression)
 # Changes: 1.13: Jun 19, 2001 Scott.L.Miller@compaq.com
 #   + Added windowSize option 
+# Changes: 1.14: Oct  9, 2001 multiple
+#   + Clean up after itself on VMS (Charles Lane in 12385)
+#   + Adding "@ file" syntax (Peter Scott in 12014)
+#   + Debug reloading selfloaded stuff (Ilya Zakharevich in 11457)
+#   + $^S and other debugger fixes (Ilya Zakharevich in 11120)
+#   + Forgot a my() declaration (Ilya Zakharevich in 11085)
+# Changes: 1.15: Nov  6, 2001 Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com>
+#   + Updated 1.14 change log
+#   + Added *dbline explainatory comments
+#   + Mentioning perldebguts man page
 ####################################################################
 
 # Needed for the statement after exec():