Queries regarding src/parrot_debugger.c

[Reini Urban]

2009/3/4 tuxdna <tuxdna at gmail.com>:
> I have two queries.
>
> * command line parameters
>
> Unlike gdb and perl -d, parrot_debugger always require a file name to be
> passed as command line parameter. Even though there is an option to load a
> file once we launch the parrot_debugger using "load" command.
>
> Should we make the file name optional in the command line parameters lile
> gdb and perl -d have ?

Sure, why not.

> * getopt() - unistd.h
>
> I see that in src/parrot_debugger.c, the command line options are being
> parsed using argv pointers directly.
>
> Can we use getopt()  of unistd.h to parse command line arguments in
> src/parrot_debugger.c or is there any portability issue with this?

See the other pbc utils. We use our own include/parrot/longopt.h

Create a ticket in trac and attach a patch.

readline integration is also missing.
t/tools/parrot_debugger.t is also very incomplete