Version 9 of atkdebugger

Updated 2003-11-28 15:47:36

ATKDebugger is a C extension to provide specific debugging commands to Tcl. It is a low API to enable one to write debugging tools in Tcl. It requires a patch to Tcl 8.4.3.

last Updated 28.11.2003 Version: 0.20

Downloads and more information including the descriptions of both internal implementation and API can be found at:

 http://www.xdobry.de/atkdebugger/index.html

These functions are now possible:

  1. debugging in every context: procedure frame, global level, byte coded and directly evaluted
  2. invoking debugger in error case (not catched errors)
  3. breakpoints
  4. invoking debugger per special atk::halt command

The package also contains an example GUI debugger written in Tk. That can be used to debug all Tcl scripts just by starting it per

   tclsh debugger.tcl yourscriptfile

There are also availabe starkit and tclkit with modified Tcl Interpreter (basen on Tcl8.4.4) as base GUI debugger that can be used to debugg tcl scripts.

atkdebugger is full supported and integrated into XOTclIDE. From Version 0.55 XOTclIDE commes with starkit and kits (Linux x86 und Windows) with modified tcl interpreter and build-in atkdebugger.

Author: Artur Trzewik

See also What debugging tools are available to a Tcl programmer

[ Category Debugging (=> Dynamic Debugger) ]