Re: debugging failure

[John Swensen]

On Nov 25, 2007, at 6:05 PM, Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 10:32:09PM +0100, David Bateman wrote:
> > I think you want "dbstop('pkg',1)" instead
>
> If I do that then I get the following:
>
> octave:36> dbstop('pkg',1)
> ans =  179
> octave:37> pkg('install', 'physicalconstants-0.1.2.tar.gz')
> octave:38> dbwhere
> error: dbwhere: must be inside of a user function to use dbwhere
>
> so it doesn't stop on the breakpoint.
>
> Any idea why that is?
>
> Oli
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If you call dbstop and the line number specified is not a 'executable'  
line, then it will set the breakpoint at the next executable line.  If  
you opened up the pkg.m file, I would suspect that the first  
executable line is 179.  And to find a list of the breakpoints, you  
should use dbstatus.  dbwhere is used when in debug mode to find out  
where you are at.

John Swensen