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From: ZyX <kp-pav@yandex.ru>
To: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>,
	"zsh-users@zsh.org" <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: following a variable's value.
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 14:19:11 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877541445167151@web30o.yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <562320B7.6060200@eastlink.ca>

18.10.2015, 07:33, "Ray Andrews" <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>:
> On 10/17/2015 05:29 PM, ZyX wrote:
>>  18.10.2015, 03:11, "Ray Andrews" <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>:
>>>  Gentlemen,
>>>
>>>  I discovered by accident the useful 'warncreateglobal' and it has me in
>>>  mind to ask if there's some way of tracing the value of variable. I
>>>  know about 'set -x' of course, but some way of following the fortunes of
>>>  a single variable would be very nice.
>
> ...
>>  If you write C module specifically for your needs you may overcome these limitations.
>
> Thanks ZyX, but that sounds way over my head. I've still never touched
> python. If no one else has any ideas then I'll keep doing it the hard
> way with inserted queries.

You can use some other languages which allow compiling *.so libraries and have a way to create compatible ABI: e.g. Rust. But in any case basic C knowledge is necessary.

What do you mean by “inserted queries”? Some kind of “debugging printf”?


  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-18 11:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-17 23:40 Ray Andrews
2015-10-18  0:29 ` ZyX
2015-10-18  4:31   ` Ray Andrews
2015-10-18 11:19     ` ZyX [this message]
2015-10-18 17:15       ` Ray Andrews
2015-10-18 17:33         ` Bart Schaefer
2015-10-18 17:46           ` Ray Andrews
2015-10-18 16:54 ` Bart Schaefer

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