Re: reursion debugging

[Gorazd Brumen]

hi guys,

yes, that is ok if you have linear code, but not when you have
recursion. then you usually get thousands of output messages,
when the recursion stack unfolds.
is there really nothing sensible?

g.

Joe Koski wrote:
> on 2/23/06 9:07 AM, Robert A. Macy at address@hidden wrote:
> 
> 
>>Not understanding debuggers, I always write my own.
>>
>>insert judicious code that writes important benchmark
>>values to a file for later review. Or display on the screen
>>and watch it go by
>>
>>           - Robert -
>>
> 
> Robert
> 
> I agree with your philosophy of adding output when debugging octave code,
> but there is one additional point:  Octave is usually very good about
> telling you where it quit and why. From that point of view, octave already
> has a built-in interactive debugger.
> 
> Joe
> 
> 
>>On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 15:43:42 +0100
>> Gorazd Brumen <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>>Dear all,
>>>
>>>I have written a program, which is deeply recursive.
>>>There are around
>>>4 functions with each calling some others recursively.
>>>
>>>Can somebody suggest me a good way to debug this, or more
>>>generally
>>>a good debugger for octave?
>>>
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>GOrazd
>>>
>>>
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