Re: Adding a command to aid in debugging Octave

[John W. Eaton]

On 5/19/20 12:47 PM, Andrew Janke wrote:
> On 5/14/20 3:41 PM, Carlo De Falco wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > > Il giorno 14 mag 2020, alle ore 19:25, John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> ha 
> > > scritto:
> > >
> > > What's the right thing for Mac systems?
> >
> > this seems to work for me :
> >
> > system (sprintf ("osascript -e 'tell application \"Terminal\" to do script \"lldb -p 
> > %d\"'", getpid ()))
> >
> > the escaping looks a bit tricky though so it would be nice if someone else 
> > could verify it ...
> >
> > c.
>
> Works for me in Octave 4.4.1 on macOS 10.14.6.

Thanks for the info about how to start the debugger on MacOS systems.

I pushed a changeset with a version of the new __debug_octave__ command 
to the stable branch and merged with default.

I also updated the information on the wiki about debugging Octave:

  https://wiki.octave.org/Debugging_Octave


jwe