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PERLDEBGUTS(1)	       Perl Programmers Reference Guide 	PERLDEBGUTS(1)



NAME
       perldebguts - Guts of Perl debugging

DESCRIPTION
       This is not the perldebug(1) manpage, which tells you how to use the
       debugger.  This manpage describes low-level details concerning the
       debugger's internals, which range from difficult to impossible to
       understand for anyone who isn't incredibly intimate with Perl's guts.
       Caveat lector.

Debugger Internals
       Perl has special debugging hooks at compile-time and run-time used to
       create debugging environments.  These hooks are not to be confused with
       the perl -Dxxx command described in perlrun, which is usable only if a
       special Perl is built per the instructions in the INSTALL podpage in
       the Perl source tree.

       For example, whenever you call Perl's built-in "caller" function from
       the package "DB", the arguments that the corresponding stack frame was
       called with are copied to the @DB::args array.  These mechanisms are
       enabled by calling Perl with the -d switch.  Specifically, the follow-
       ing additional features are enabled (cf. "$^P" in perlvar):

       o   Perl inserts the contents of $ENV{PERL5DB} (or "BEGIN {require
	   'perl5db.pl'}" if not present) before the first line of your pro-
	   gram.

       o   Each array "@{"_<$filename"}" holds the lines of $filename for a
	   file compiled by Perl.  The same is also true for "eval"ed strings
	   that contain subroutines, or which are currently being executed.
	   The $filename for "eval"ed strings looks like "(eval 34)".  Code
	   assertions in regexes look like "(re_eval 19)".

	   Values in this array are magical in numeric context: they compare
	   equal to zero only if the line is not breakable.

       o   Each hash "%{"_<$filename"}" contains breakpoints and actions keyed
	   by line number.  Individual entries (as opposed to the whole hash)
	   are settable.  Perl only cares about Boolean true here, although
	   the values used by perl5db.pl have the form "$break_condi-
	   tion\0$action".

	   The same holds for evaluated strings that contain subroutines, or
	   which are currently being executed.	The $filename for "eval"ed
	   strings looks like "(eval 34)" or  "(re_eval 19)".

       o   Each scalar "${"_<$filename"}" contains "_<$filename".  This is
	   also the case for evaluated strings that contain subroutines, or
	   which are currently being executed.	The $filename for "eval"ed
	   strings looks like "(eval 34)" or "(re_eval 19)".

       o   After each "require"d file is compiled, but before it is executed,
	   "DB::postponed(*{"_<$filename"})" is called if the subroutine
	   "DB::postponed" exists.  Here, the $filename is the expanded name
	   of the "require"d file, as found in the values of %INC.

       o   After each subroutine "subname" is compiled, the existence of
	   $DB::postponed{subname} is checked.	If this key exists, "DB::post-
	   poned(subname)" is called if the "DB::postponed" subroutine also
	   exists.

       o   A hash %DB::sub is maintained, whose keys are subroutine names and
	   whose values have the form "filename:startline-endline".  "file-
	   name" has the form "(eval 34)" for subroutines defined inside
	   "eval"s, or "(re_eval 19)" for those within regex code assertions.

       o   When the execution of your program reaches a point that can hold a
	   breakpoint, the "DB::DB()" subroutine is called if any of the vari-
	   ables $DB::trace, $DB::single, or $DB::signal is true.  These vari-
	   ables are not "local"izable.  This feature is disabled when execut-
	   ing inside "DB::DB()", including functions called from it unless
	   "$^D & (1<<30)" is true.

       o   When execution of the program reaches a subroutine call, a call to
	   &DB::sub(args) is made instead, with $DB::sub holding the name of
	   the called subroutine. (This doesn't happen if the subroutine was
	   compiled in the "DB" package.)

       Note that if &DB::sub needs external data for it to work, no subroutine
       call is possible without it. As an example, the standard debugger's
       &DB::sub depends on the $DB::deep variable (it defines how many levels
       of recursion deep into the debugger you can go before a mandatory
       break).	If $DB::deep is not defined, subroutine calls are not possi-
       ble, even though &DB::sub exists.

       Writing Your Own Debugger

       Environment Variables

       The "PERL5DB" environment variable can be used to define a debugger.
       For example, the minimal "working" debugger (it actually doesn't do
       anything) consists of one line:

	 sub DB::DB {}

       It can easily be defined like this:

	 $ PERL5DB="sub DB::DB {}" perl -d your-script

       Another brief debugger, slightly more useful, can be created with only
       the line:

	 sub DB::DB {print ++$i; scalar }

       This debugger prints a number which increments for each statement
       encountered and waits for you to hit a newline before continuing to the
       next statement.

       The following debugger is actually useful:

	 {
	   package DB;
	   sub DB  {}
	   sub sub {print ++$i, " $sub\n"; &$sub}
	 }

       It prints the sequence number of each subroutine call and the name of
       the called subroutine.  Note that &DB::sub is being compiled into the
       package "DB" through the use of the "package" directive.

       When it starts, the debugger reads your rc file (./.perldb or ~/.perldb
       under Unix), which can set important options.  (A subroutine
       (&afterinit) can be defined here as well; it is executed after the
       debugger completes its own initialization.)

       After the rc file is read, the debugger reads the PERLDB_OPTS environ-
       ment variable and uses it to set debugger options. The contents of this
       variable are treated as if they were the argument of an "o ..." debug-
       ger command (q.v. in "Options" in perldebug).

       Debugger internal variables In addition to the file and subroutine-
       related variables mentioned above, the debugger also maintains various
       magical internal variables.

       o   @DB::dbline is an alias for "@{"::_o   %DB::dbline, is an alias for "%{"::_perl5db.pl have the form "$break_condi-
	   tion\0$action".

       Debugger customization functions

       Some functions are provided to simplify customization.

       o   See "Options" in perldebug for description of options parsed by
	   "DB::parse_options(string)" parses debugger options; see "Options"
	   in pperldebug for a description of options recognized.

       o   "DB::dump_trace(skip[,count])" skips the specified number of frames
	   and returns a list containing information about the calling frames
	   (all of them, if "count" is missing).  Each entry is reference to a
	   hash with keys "context" (either ".", "$", or "@"), "sub" (subrou-
	   tine name, or info about "eval"), "args" ("undef" or a reference to
	   an array), "file", and "line".

       o   "DB::print_trace(FH, skip[, count[, short]])" prints formatted info
	   about caller frames.  The last two functions may be convenient as
	   arguments to "<", "<<" commands.

       Note that any variables and functions that are not documented in this
       manpages (or in perldebug) are considered for internal use only, and as
       such are subject to change without notice.

Frame Listing Output Examples
       The "frame" option can be used to control the output of frame informa-
       tion.  For example, contrast this expression trace:

	$ perl -de 42
	Stack dump during die enabled outside of evals.

	Loading DB routines from perl5db.pl patch level 0.94
	Emacs support available.

	Enter h or `h h' for help.

	main::(-e:1):	0
	  DB<1> sub foo { 14 }

	  DB<2> sub bar { 3 }

	  DB<3> t print foo() * bar()
	main::((eval 172):3):	print foo() + bar();
	main::foo((eval 168):2):
	main::bar((eval 170):2):
	42

       with this one, once the "o"ption "frame=2" has been set:

	  DB<4> o f=2
		       frame = '2'
	  DB<5> t print foo() * bar()
	3:	foo() * bar()
	entering main::foo
	 2:	sub foo { 14 };
	exited main::foo
	entering main::bar
	 2:	sub bar { 3 };
	exited main::bar
	42

       By way of demonstration, we present below a laborious listing resulting
       from setting your "PERLDB_OPTS" environment variable to the value "f=n
       N", and running perl -d -V from the command line.  Examples use various
       values of "n" are shown to give you a feel for the difference between
       settings.  Long those it may be, this is not a complete listing, but
       only excerpts.

       1
	     entering main::BEGIN
	      entering Config::BEGIN
	       Package lib/Exporter.pm.
	       Package lib/Carp.pm.
	      Package lib/Config.pm.
	      entering Config::TIEHASH
	      entering Exporter::import
	       entering Exporter::export
	     entering Config::myconfig
	      entering Config::FETCH
	      entering Config::FETCH
	      entering Config::FETCH
	      entering Config::FETCH

       2
	     entering main::BEGIN
	      entering Config::BEGIN
	       Package lib/Exporter.pm.
	       Package lib/Carp.pm.
	      exited Config::BEGIN
	      Package lib/Config.pm.
	      entering Config::TIEHASH
	      exited Config::TIEHASH
	      entering Exporter::import
	       entering Exporter::export
	       exited Exporter::export
	      exited Exporter::import
	     exited main::BEGIN
	     entering Config::myconfig
	      entering Config::FETCH
	      exited Config::FETCH
	      entering Config::FETCH
	      exited Config::FETCH
	      entering Config::FETCH

       4
	     in  $=main::BEGIN() from /dev/null:0
	      in  $=Config::BEGIN() from lib/Config.pm:2
	       Package lib/Exporter.pm.
	       Package lib/Carp.pm.
	      Package lib/Config.pm.
	      in  $=Config::TIEHASH('Config') from lib/Config.pm:644
	      in  $=Exporter::import('Config', 'myconfig', 'config_vars') from /dev/null:0
	       in  $=Exporter::export('Config', 'main', 'myconfig', 'config_vars') from li
	     in  @=Config::myconfig() from /dev/null:0
	      in  $=Config::FETCH(ref(Config), 'package') from lib/Config.pm:574
	      in  $=Config::FETCH(ref(Config), 'baserev') from lib/Config.pm:574
	      in  $=Config::FETCH(ref(Config), 'PERL_VERSION') from lib/Config.pm:574
	      in  $=Config::FETCH(ref(Config), 'PERL_SUBVERSION') from lib/Config.pm:574
	      in  $=Config::FETCH(ref(Config), 'osname') from lib/Config.pm:574
	      in  $=Config::FETCH(ref(Config), 'osvers') from lib/Config.pm:574

       6
	     in  $=main::BEGIN() from /dev/null:0
	      in  $=Config::BEGIN() from lib/Config.pm:2
	       Package lib/Exporter.pm.
	       Package lib/Carp.pm.
	      out $=Config::BEGIN() from lib/Config.pm:0
	      Package lib/Config.pm.
	      in  $=Config::TIEHASH('Config') from lib/Config.pm:644
	      out $=Config::TIEHASH('Config') from lib/Config.pm:644
	      in  $=Exporter::import('Config', 'myconfig', 'config_vars') from /dev/null:0
	       in  $=Exporter::export('Config', 'main', 'myconfig', 'config_vars') from lib/
	       out $=Exporter::export('Config', 'main', 'myconfig', 'config_vars') from lib/
	      out $=Exporter::import('Config', 'myconfig', 'config_vars') from /dev/null:0
	     out $=main::BEGIN() from /dev/null:0
	     in  @=Config::myconfig() from /dev/null:0
	      in  $=Config::FETCH(ref(Config), 'package') from lib/Config.pm:574
	      out $=Config::FETCH(ref(Config), 'package') from lib/Config.pm:574
	      in  $=Config::FETCH(ref(Config), 'baserev') from lib/Config.pm:574
	      out $=Config::FETCH(ref(Config), 'baserev') from lib/Config.pm:574
	      in  $=Config::FETCH(ref(Config), 'PERL_VERSION') from lib/Config.pm:574
	      out $=Config::FETCH(ref(Config), 'PERL_VERSION') from lib/Config.pm:574
	      in  $=Config::FETCH(ref(Config), 'PERL_SUBVERSION') from lib/Config.pm:574

       14
	     in  $=main::BEGIN() from /dev/null:0
	      in  $=Config::BEGIN() from lib/Config.pm:2
	       Package lib/Exporter.pm.
	       Package lib/Carp.pm.
	      out $=Config::BEGIN() from lib/Config.pm:0
	      Package lib/Config.pm.
	      in  $=Config::TIEHASH('Config') from lib/Config.pm:644
	      out $=Config::TIEHASH('Config') from lib/Config.pm:644
	      in  $=Exporter::import('Config', 'myconfig', 'config_vars') from /dev/null:0
	       in  $=Exporter::export('Config', 'main', 'myconfig', 'config_vars') from lib/E
	       out $=Exporter::export('Config', 'main', 'myconfig', 'config_vars') from lib/E
	      out $=Exporter::import('Config', 'myconfig', 'config_vars') from /dev/null:0
	     out $=main::BEGIN() from /dev/null:0
	     in  @=Config::myconfig() from /dev/null:0
	      in  $=Config::FETCH('Config=HASH(0x1aa444)', 'package') from lib/Config.pm:574
	      out $=Config::FETCH('Config=HASH(0x1aa444)', 'package') from lib/Config.pm:574
	      in  $=Config::FETCH('Config=HASH(0x1aa444)', 'baserev') from lib/Config.pm:574
	      out $=Config::FETCH('Config=HASH(0x1aa444)', 'baserev') from lib/Config.pm:574

       30
	     in  $=CODE(0x15eca4)() from /dev/null:0
	      in  $=CODE(0x182528)() from lib/Config.pm:2
	       Package lib/Exporter.pm.
	      out $=CODE(0x182528)() from lib/Config.pm:0
	      scalar context return from CODE(0x182528): undef
	      Package lib/Config.pm.
	      in  $=Config::TIEHASH('Config') from lib/Config.pm:628
	      out $=Config::TIEHASH('Config') from lib/Config.pm:628
	      scalar context return from Config::TIEHASH:   empty hash
	      in  $=Exporter::import('Config', 'myconfig', 'config_vars') from /dev/null:0
	       in  $=Exporter::export('Config', 'main', 'myconfig', 'config_vars') from lib/Exporter.pm:171
	       out $=Exporter::export('Config', 'main', 'myconfig', 'config_vars') from lib/Exporter.pm:171
	       scalar context return from Exporter::export: ''
	      out $=Exporter::import('Config', 'myconfig', 'config_vars') from /dev/null:0
	      scalar context return from Exporter::import: ''

       In all cases shown above, the line indentation shows the call tree.  If
       bit 2 of "frame" is set, a line is printed on exit from a subroutine as
       well.  If bit 4 is set, the arguments are printed along with the caller
       info.  If bit 8 is set, the arguments are printed even if they are tied
       or references.  If bit 16 is set, the return value is printed, too.

       When a package is compiled, a line like this

	   Package lib/Carp.pm.

       is printed with proper indentation.

Debugging regular expressions
       There are two ways to enable debugging output for regular expressions.

       If your perl is compiled with "-DDEBUGGING", you may use the -Dr flag
       on the command line.

       Otherwise, one can "use re 'debug'", which has effects at compile time
       and run time.  It is not lexically scoped.

       Compile-time output

       The debugging output at compile time looks like this:

	 Compiling REx `[bc]d(ef*g)+h[ij]k$'
	 size 45 Got 364 bytes for offset annotations.
	 first at 1
	 rarest char g at 0
	 rarest char d at 0
	    1: ANYOF[bc](12)
	   12: EXACT (14)
	   14: CURLYX[0] {1,32767}(28)
	   16:	 OPEN1(18)
	   18:	   EXACT (20)
	   20:	   STAR(23)
	   21:	     EXACT (0)
	   23:	   EXACT (25)
	   25:	 CLOSE1(27)
	   27:	 WHILEM[1/1](0)
	   28: NOTHING(29)
	   29: EXACT (31)
	   31: ANYOF[ij](42)
	   42: EXACT (44)
	   44: EOL(45)
	   45: END(0)
	 anchored `de' at 1 floating `gh' at 3..2147483647 (checking floating)
	       stclass `ANYOF[bc]' minlen 7
	 Offsets: [45]
	       1[4] 0[0] 0[0] 0[0] 0[0] 0[0] 0[0] 0[0] 0[0] 0[0] 0[0] 5[1]
	       0[0] 12[1] 0[0] 6[1] 0[0] 7[1] 0[0] 9[1] 8[1] 0[0] 10[1] 0[0]
	       11[1] 0[0] 12[0] 12[0] 13[1] 0[0] 14[4] 0[0] 0[0] 0[0] 0[0]
	       0[0] 0[0] 0[0] 0[0] 0[0] 0[0] 18[1] 0[0] 19[1] 20[0]
	 Omitting $` $& $' support.

       The first line shows the pre-compiled form of the regex.  The second
       shows the size of the compiled form (in arbitrary units, usually 4-byte
       words) and the total number of bytes allocated for the offset/length
       table, usually 4+"size"*8.  The next line shows the label id of the
       first node that does a match.

       The

	 anchored `de' at 1 floating `gh' at 3..2147483647 (checking floating)
	       stclass `ANYOF[bc]' minlen 7

       line (split into two lines above) contains optimizer information.  In
       the example shown, the optimizer found that the match should contain a
       substring "de" at offset 1, plus substring "gh" at some offset between
       3 and infinity.	Moreover, when checking for these substrings (to aban-
       don impossible matches quickly), Perl will check for the substring "gh"
       before checking for the substring "de".	The optimizer may also use the
       knowledge that the match starts (at the "first" id) with a character
       class, and no string shorter than 7 characters can possibly match.

       The fields of interest which may appear in this line are

       "anchored" STRING "at" POS
       "floating" STRING "at" POS1..POS2
	   See above.

       "matching floating/anchored"
	   Which substring to check first.

       "minlen"
	   The minimal length of the match.

       "stclass" TYPE
	   Type of first matching node.

       "noscan"
	   Don't scan for the found substrings.

       "isall"
	   Means that the optimizer information is all that the regular
	   expression contains, and thus one does not need to enter the regex
	   engine at all.

       "GPOS"
	   Set if the pattern contains "\G".

       "plus"
	   Set if the pattern starts with a repeated char (as in "x+y").

       "implicit"
	   Set if the pattern starts with ".*".

       "with eval"
	   Set if the pattern contain eval-groups, such as "(?{ code })" and
	   "(??{ code })".

       "anchored(TYPE)"
	   If the pattern may match only at a handful of places, (with "TYPE"
	   being "BOL", "MBOL", or "GPOS".  See the table below.

       If a substring is known to match at end-of-line only, it may be fol-
       lowed by "$", as in "floating `k'$".

       The optimizer-specific information is used to avoid entering (a slow)
       regex engine on strings that will not definitely match.	If the "isall"
       flag is set, a call to the regex engine may be avoided even when the
       optimizer found an appropriate place for the match.

       Above the optimizer section is the list of nodes of the compiled form
       of the regex.  Each line has format

       "   "id: TYPE OPTIONAL-INFO (next-id)

       Types of nodes

       Here are the possible types, with short descriptions:

	   # TYPE arg-description [num-args] [longjump-len] DESCRIPTION

	   # Exit points
	   END	       no      End of program.
	   SUCCEED     no      Return from a subroutine, basically.

	   # Anchors:
	   BOL	       no      Match "" at beginning of line.
	   MBOL        no      Same, assuming multiline.
	   SBOL        no      Same, assuming singleline.
	   EOS	       no      Match "" at end of string.
	   EOL	       no      Match "" at end of line.
	   MEOL        no      Same, assuming multiline.
	   SEOL        no      Same, assuming singleline.
	   BOUND       no      Match "" at any word boundary
	   BOUNDL      no      Match "" at any word boundary
	   NBOUND      no      Match "" at any word non-boundary
	   NBOUNDL     no      Match "" at any word non-boundary
	   GPOS        no      Matches where last m//g left off.

	   # [Special] alternatives
	   ANY	       no      Match any one character (except newline).
	   SANY        no      Match any one character.
	   ANYOF       sv      Match character in (or not in) this class.
	   ALNUM       no      Match any alphanumeric character
	   ALNUML      no      Match any alphanumeric char in locale
	   NALNUM      no      Match any non-alphanumeric character
	   NALNUML     no      Match any non-alphanumeric char in locale
	   SPACE       no      Match any whitespace character
	   SPACEL      no      Match any whitespace char in locale
	   NSPACE      no      Match any non-whitespace character
	   NSPACEL     no      Match any non-whitespace char in locale
	   DIGIT       no      Match any numeric character
	   NDIGIT      no      Match any non-numeric character

	   # BRANCH    The set of branches constituting a single choice are hooked
	   #	       together with their "next" pointers, since precedence prevents
	   #	       anything being concatenated to any individual branch.  The
	   #	       "next" pointer of the last BRANCH in a choice points to the
	   #	       thing following the whole choice.  This is also where the
	   #	       final "next" pointer of each individual branch points; each
	   #	       branch starts with the operand node of a BRANCH node.
	   #
	   BRANCH      node    Match this alternative, or the next...

	   # BACK      Normal "next" pointers all implicitly point forward; BACK
	   #	       exists to make loop structures possible.
	   # not used
	   BACK        no      Match "", "next" ptr points backward.

	   # Literals
	   EXACT       sv      Match this string (preceded by length).
	   EXACTF      sv      Match this string, folded (prec. by length).
	   EXACTFL     sv      Match this string, folded in locale (w/len).

	   # Do nothing
	   NOTHING     no      Match empty string.
	   # A variant of above which delimits a group, thus stops optimizations
	   TAIL        no      Match empty string. Can jump here from outside.

	   # STAR,PLUS '?', and complex '*' and '+', are implemented as circular
	   #	       BRANCH structures using BACK.  Simple cases (one character
	   #	       per match) are implemented with STAR and PLUS for speed
	   #	       and to minimize recursive plunges.
	   #
	   STAR        node    Match this (simple) thing 0 or more times.
	   PLUS        node    Match this (simple) thing 1 or more times.

	   CURLY       sv 2    Match this simple thing {n,m} times.
	   CURLYN      no 2    Match next-after-this simple thing
	   #		       {n,m} times, set parens.
	   CURLYM      no 2    Match this medium-complex thing {n,m} times.
	   CURLYX      sv 2    Match this complex thing {n,m} times.

	   # This terminator creates a loop structure for CURLYX
	   WHILEM      no      Do curly processing and see if rest matches.

	   # OPEN,CLOSE,GROUPP ...are numbered at compile time.
	   OPEN        num 1   Mark this point in input as start of #n.
	   CLOSE       num 1   Analogous to OPEN.

	   REF	       num 1   Match some already matched string
	   REFF        num 1   Match already matched string, folded
	   REFFL       num 1   Match already matched string, folded in loc.

	   # grouping assertions
	   IFMATCH     off 1 2 Succeeds if the following matches.
	   UNLESSM     off 1 2 Fails if the following matches.
	   SUSPEND     off 1 1 "Independent" sub-regex.
	   IFTHEN      off 1 1 Switch, should be preceded by switcher .
	   GROUPP      num 1   Whether the group matched.

	   # Support for long regex
	   LONGJMP     off 1 1 Jump far away.
	   BRANCHJ     off 1 1 BRANCH with long offset.

	   # The heavy worker
	   EVAL        evl 1   Execute some Perl code.

	   # Modifiers
	   MINMOD      no      Next operator is not greedy.
	   LOGICAL     no      Next opcode should set the flag only.

	   # This is not used yet
	   RENUM       off 1 1 Group with independently numbered parens.

	   # This is not really a node, but an optimized away piece of a "long" node.
	   # To simplify debugging output, we mark it as if it were a node
	   OPTIMIZED   off     Placeholder for dump.

       Following the optimizer information is a dump of the offset/length ta-
       ble, here split across several lines:

	 Offsets: [45]
	       1[4] 0[0] 0[0] 0[0] 0[0] 0[0] 0[0] 0[0] 0[0] 0[0] 0[0] 5[1]
	       0[0] 12[1] 0[0] 6[1] 0[0] 7[1] 0[0] 9[1] 8[1] 0[0] 10[1] 0[0]
	       11[1] 0[0] 12[0] 12[0] 13[1] 0[0] 14[4] 0[0] 0[0] 0[0] 0[0]
	       0[0] 0[0] 0[0] 0[0] 0[0] 0[0] 18[1] 0[0] 19[1] 20[0]

       The first line here indicates that the offset/length table contains 45
       entries.  Each entry is a pair of integers, denoted by "off-
       set[length]".  Entries are numbered starting with 1, so entry #1 here
       is "1[4]" and entry #12 is "5[1]".  "1[4]" indicates that the node
       labeled "1:" (the "1: ANYOF[bc]") begins at character position 1 in the
       pre-compiled form of the regex, and has a length of 4 characters.
       "5[1]" in position 12 indicates that the node labeled "12:" (the "12:
       EXACT ") begins at character position 5 in the pre-compiled form of
       the regex, and has a length of 1 character.  "12[1]" in position 14
       indicates that the node labeled "14:" (the "14: CURLYX[0] {1,32767}")
       begins at character position 12 in the pre-compiled form of the regex,
       and has a length of 1 character---that is, it corresponds to the "+"
       symbol in the precompiled regex.

       "0[0]" items indicate that there is no corresponding node.

       Run-time output

       First of all, when doing a match, one may get no run-time output even
       if debugging is enabled.  This means that the regex engine was never
       entered and that all of the job was therefore done by the optimizer.

       If the regex engine was entered, the output may look like this:

	 Matching `[bc]d(ef*g)+h[ij]k$' against `abcdefg__gh__'
	   Setting an EVAL scope, savestack=3
	    2      |  1: ANYOF
	    3      | 11: EXACT 
	    4      | 13: CURLYX {1,32767}
	    4      | 26:   WHILEM
				       0 out of 1..32767  cc=effff31c
	    4      | 15:     OPEN1
	    4      | 17:     EXACT 
	    5      | 19:     STAR
				    EXACT  can match 1 times out of 32767...
	   Setting an EVAL scope, savestack=3
	    6      | 22:       EXACT 
	    7  <__gh__>    | 24:       CLOSE1
	    7  <__gh__>    | 26:       WHILEM
					   1 out of 1..32767  cc=effff31c
	   Setting an EVAL scope, savestack=12
	    7  <__gh__>    | 15:	 OPEN1
	    7  <__gh__>    | 17:	 EXACT 
	      restoring \1 to 4(4)..7
					   failed, try continuation...
	    7  <__gh__>    | 27:	 NOTHING
	    7  <__gh__>    | 28:	 EXACT 
					   failed...
				       failed...

       The most significant information in the output is about the particular
       node of the compiled regex that is currently being tested against the
       target string.  The format of these lines is

       "    "STRING-OFFSET <PRE-STRING> <POST-STRING>	|ID:  TYPE

       The TYPE info is indented with respect to the backtracking level.
       Other incidental information appears interspersed within.

Debugging Perl memory usage
       Perl is a profligate wastrel when it comes to memory use.  There is a
       saying that to estimate memory usage of Perl, assume a reasonable algo-
       rithm for memory allocation, multiply that estimate by 10, and while
       you still may miss the mark, at least you won't be quite so astonished.
       This is not absolutely true, but may provide a good grasp of what hap-
       pens.

       Assume that an integer cannot take less than 20 bytes of memory, a
       float cannot take less than 24 bytes, a string cannot take less than 32
       bytes (all these examples assume 32-bit architectures, the result are
       quite a bit worse on 64-bit architectures).  If a variable is accessed
       in two of three different ways (which require an integer, a float, or a
       string), the memory footprint may increase yet another 20 bytes.  A
       sloppy malloc(3) implementation can inflate these numbers dramatically.

       On the opposite end of the scale, a declaration like

	 sub foo;

       may take up to 500 bytes of memory, depending on which release of Perl
       you're running.

       Anecdotal estimates of source-to-compiled code bloat suggest an eight-
       fold increase.  This means that the compiled form of reasonable (nor-
       mally commented, properly indented etc.) code will take about eight
       times more space in memory than the code took on disk.

       The -DL command-line switch is obsolete since circa Perl 5.6.0 (it was
       available only if Perl was built with "-DDEBUGGING").  The switch was
       used to track Perl's memory allocations and possible memory leaks.
       These days the use of malloc debugging tools like Purify or valgrind is
       suggested instead.

       One way to find out how much memory is being used by Perl data struc-
       tures is to install the Devel::Size module from CPAN: it gives you the
       minimum number of bytes required to store a particular data structure.
       Please be mindful of the difference between the size() and
       total_size().

       If Perl has been compiled using Perl's malloc you can analyze Perl mem-
       ory usage by setting the $ENV{PERL_DEBUG_MSTATS}.

       Using $ENV{PERL_DEBUG_MSTATS}

       If your perl is using Perl's malloc() and was compiled with the neces-
       sary switches (this is the default), then it will print memory usage
       statistics after compiling your code when "$ENV{PERL_DEBUG_MSTATS} >
       1", and before termination of the program when "$ENV{PERL_DEBUG_MSTATS}
       >= 1".  The report format is similar to the following example:

	 $ PERL_DEBUG_MSTATS=2 perl -e "require Carp"
	 Memory allocation statistics after compilation: (buckets 4(4)..8188(8192)
	    14216 free:   130	117    28     7     9	0   2	  2   1 0 0
		       437    61    36	   0	 5
	    60924 used:   125	137   161    55     7	8   6	 16   2 0 1
			74   109   304	  84	20
	 Total sbrk(): 77824/21:119. Odd ends: pad+heads+chain+tail: 0+636+0+2048.
	 Memory allocation statistics after execution:	 (buckets 4(4)..8188(8192)
	    30888 free:   245	 78    85    13     6	2   1	  3   2 0 1
		       315   162    39	  42	11
	   175816 used:   265	176  1112   111    26  22  11	 27   2 1 1
		       196   178  1066	 798	39
	 Total sbrk(): 215040/47:145. Odd ends: pad+heads+chain+tail: 0+2192+0+6144.

       It is possible to ask for such a statistic at arbitrary points in your
       execution using the mstat() function out of the standard Devel::Peek
       module.

       Here is some explanation of that format:

       "buckets SMALLEST(APPROX)..GREATEST(APPROX)"
	   Perl's malloc() uses bucketed allocations.  Every request is
	   rounded up to the closest bucket size available, and a bucket is
	   taken from the pool of buckets of that size.

	   The line above describes the limits of buckets currently in use.
	   Each bucket has two sizes: memory footprint and the maximal size of
	   user data that can fit into this bucket.  Suppose in the above
	   example that the smallest bucket were size 4.  The biggest bucket
	   would have usable size 8188, and the memory footprint would be
	   8192.

	   In a Perl built for debugging, some buckets may have negative
	   usable size.  This means that these buckets cannot (and will not)
	   be used.  For larger buckets, the memory footprint may be one page
	   greater than a power of 2.  If so, case the corresponding power of
	   two is printed in the "APPROX" field above.

       Free/Used
	   The 1 or 2 rows of numbers following that correspond to the number
	   of buckets of each size between "SMALLEST" and "GREATEST".  In the
	   first row, the sizes (memory footprints) of buckets are powers of
	   two--or possibly one page greater.  In the second row, if present,
	   the memory footprints of the buckets are between the memory foot-
	   prints of two buckets "above".

	   For example, suppose under the previous example, the memory foot-
	   prints were

		free:	 8     16    32    64	 128  256 512 1024 2048 4096 8192
		      4     12	  24	48    80

	   With non-"DEBUGGING" perl, the buckets starting from 128 have a
	   4-byte overhead, and thus an 8192-long bucket may take up to
	   8188-byte allocations.

       "Total sbrk(): SBRKed/SBRKs:CONTINUOUS"
	   The first two fields give the total amount of memory perl sbrk(2)ed
	   (ess-broken? :-) and number of sbrk(2)s used.  The third number is
	   what perl thinks about continuity of returned chunks.  So long as
	   this number is positive, malloc() will assume that it is probable
	   that sbrk(2) will provide continuous memory.

	   Memory allocated by external libraries is not counted.

       "pad: 0"
	   The amount of sbrk(2)ed memory needed to keep buckets aligned.

       "heads: 2192"
	   Although memory overhead of bigger buckets is kept inside the
	   bucket, for smaller buckets, it is kept in separate areas.  This
	   field gives the total size of these areas.

       "chain: 0"
	   malloc() may want to subdivide a bigger bucket into smaller buck-
	   ets.  If only a part of the deceased bucket is left unsubdivided,
	   the rest is kept as an element of a linked list.  This field gives
	   the total size of these chunks.

       "tail: 6144"
	   To minimize the number of sbrk(2)s, malloc() asks for more memory.
	   This field gives the size of the yet unused part, which is
	   sbrk(2)ed, but never touched.

SEE ALSO
       perldebug, perlguts, perlrun re, and Devel::DProf.



perl v5.8.8			  2006-01-07			PERLDEBGUTS(1)
=19360
+678
(87)