Re: Concern around growing complexity in engine - hash table specifically
| From: | Adam Harvey | Date: | Wed, 08 Apr 2015 16:56:36 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Concern around growing complexity in engine - hash table specifically | ||
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On 8 April 2015 at 08:16, Anthony Ferrara <ircmaxell@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sophistication is fine. What worries me though is magic. What worries
> me is the growing inability to debug with normal tools. Perhaps we
> need a GDB extension to provide tooling for common debugging tasks.
> Heck, even dumping a zend_string requires a cast (p (char*)str->val).
On that: we do already have a .gdbinit in php-src. I wonder if a
concrete thing that could be done right now to improve matters for
master would be to extend it on master to cover those sorts of common
operations that we're going to need to debug PHP 7.
Adam