Recently I've been frustrated that it's inconvenient to debug non-debugging perl. I just learned that as long as I compile something with XS code with -g, then gdb does get the info anyway.
gdb -q /opt/perl-5.10.0/bin/perl Reading symbols for shared libraries .... done (gdb) run -MSomething -edump Starting program: /opt/perl-5.10.0/bin/perl -Mblib -MSomething -edump Reading symbols for shared libraries +++. done Reading symbols for shared libraries . done Reading symbols for shared libraries . done
Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted. 0x93c24e42 in __kill () (gdb) p PL_sv_arenaroot $1 =(gdb) p *(struct sv*)PL_sv_arenaroot $3 = { sv_any = 0x833200, sv_refcnt = 128, sv_flags = 0, sv_u = { svu_iv = 0, svu_uv = 0, svu_rv = 0x0, svu_pv = 0x0, svu_array = 0x0, svu_hash = 0x0, svu_gp = 0x0 } }
