Re: [perl #122445] Segmentation fault while debugging programs usingbignum in 5.18.2

On 07/30/2014 09:34 PM, James E Keenan via RT wrote:
> You are trying to assign to $DB::single, which seems to violate the "readonly" stipulation.

Setting a debugging break programatically by assigning to $DB::single is 
both documented (see Debugging Compile-Time Statements):

http://perldoc.perl.org/perldebug.html

and incredibly useful (hint, you can also set it conditionally to break 
in a loop only when specific conditions are true).  It is also the only 
way to debug a BEGIN block.

John

• [perl #122445] Segmentation fault while debugging programs using bignum in 5.18.2 by Christian Stahlhut
• [perl #122445] Segmentation fault while debugging programs using bignum in 5.18.2 by Christian Stahlhut via RT
• [perl #122445] Segmentation fault while debugging programs using bignum in 5.18.2 by James E Keenan via RT
• Re: [perl #122445] Segmentation fault while debugging programs usingbignum in 5.18.2 by John Peacock
• [perl #122445] Segmentation fault while debugging programs using bignum in 5.18.2 by James E Keenan via RT