Re: generators & php tools

On Tue, 9 Oct 2012, Nikita Popov wrote: > On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote: > > On Sun, 30 Sep 2012, Stas Malyshev wrote: > > > >> I was looking into generators topic and I couldn't find answer to > >> this question: how generators are supposed to interact with PHP > >> tools, such as debuggers, profilers, etc.? Specifically, how calls > >> to generator are handled? Usually, the tool overrides zend_execute > >> and zend_execute_internal and every function call goes through > >> there. But generator does not use these - it uses execute_ex > >> instead. So can generator be debugged/profiled? What happens if I > >> say "step out" inside generator - would that work? > > > > It won't work with Xdebug right now, as it indeed overrides just > > zend_execute and zend_execute_internal --- we should definitely look > > at fixing generators that they go through those as well. It's > > related to the zend_execute_internal hook missing from the other > > email that I just replied to (and your PR 178). > > Generators won't be able to go through zend_execute, because they need > to work on an existing execution context and not create a new one on > every resume. So instead we will probably need an additional hook for > execute_ex (in which case the existing execute hook isn't really > necessary anymore). > > Would that be okay? Let's find out! I'd be happy to play around with this new hook and see whether it works. cheers, Derick -- http://derickrethans.nl | http://xdebug.org Like Xdebug? Consider a donation: http://xdebug.org/donate.php twitter: @derickr and @xdebug Posted with an email client that doesn't mangle email: alpine