error in entering debug mode

[pauljoseph ()]

Hi,
recently I tried to use the command "keyboard" to enter the debug mode. It behaves strangely.

If I just start Octave, it can enter debug quite clean, but If I rerun the script again, it will give me this error

debug> "error: input: reading user-input failed!"  

and it won't stop until I hit Ctrl-C.
my input file is nothing special, I just put "keyboard" in the line that I want to stop.

anyone knows why? is this a bug? or did I use the command wrongly?
I am using Octave 3.0.0

thanks in advance :)

[dbateman3]

pauljoseph wrote:

> Hi,
> recently I tried to use the command "keyboard" to enter the debug mode. It
> behaves strangely.
>
> If I just start Octave, it can enter debug quite clean, but If I rerun the
> script again, it will give me this error
>
> debug> "error: input: reading user-input failed!"  
>
> and it won't stop until I hit Ctrl-C.
> my input file is nothing special, I just put "keyboard" in the line that I
> want to stop.
>
> anyone knows why? is this a bug? or did I use the command wrongly?
> I am using Octave 3.0.0

The debug mode doesn't run the code through the parser but instead
treats it line by line.. Therefore in debug mode you can write

for i = 1 : n, y(i) = foo(i); end

but not

for i = 1 : n
  y (i) = foo(i)
end

I imagine your problem is somehow related to that..

D.

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[pauljoseph]

> The debug mode doesn't run the code through the parser but instead
> treats it line by line.. Therefore in debug mode you can write
>
> for i = 1 : n, y(i) = foo(i); end
>
> but not
>
> for i = 1 : n
>   y (i) = foo(i)
> end
>
> I imagine your problem is somehow related to that..
>
> D.
>
>

Hi David, thanks for replying, just to clarify how I got the error.

First I inserted keyboard command into my script and it stop. Then I
tried to get out of the debug mode. I couldn't type "exit" or "quit",
but I managed to return to octave:> prompt after I hit Ctrl-C

so now it's suppose to be in the octave prompt because I see
octave:>

then when I run the script again it gives me

>> debug> "error: input: reading user-input failed!"
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[dbateman3]

Oka Kurniawan wrote:

>> The debug mode doesn't run the code through the parser but instead
>> treats it line by line.. Therefore in debug mode you can write
>>
>> for i = 1 : n, y(i) = foo(i); end
>>
>> but not
>>
>> for i = 1 : n
>>   y (i) = foo(i)
>> end
>>
>> I imagine your problem is somehow related to that..
>>
>> D.
>>
>>
>
> Hi David, thanks for replying, just to clarify how I got the error.
>
> First I inserted keyboard command into my script and it stop. Then I
> tried to get out of the debug mode. I couldn't type "exit" or "quit",
> but I managed to return to octave:> prompt after I hit Ctrl-C
>
> so now it's suppose to be in the octave prompt because I see
> octave:>
>
> then when I run the script again it gives me

Humming, that shouldn't happen and I can't seem to duplicate it. I can
quit the debug mode with "quit".

>>> debug> "error: input: reading user-input failed!"

This is the error message from input.cc (get_user_input) when it can't
understand to input its given. Maybe the control-c is the cause of this
issue though I don't see why.

D.
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[pauljoseph]

David Bateman-3 wrote:

Humming, that shouldn't happen and I can't seem to duplicate it. I can
quit the debug mode with "quit".

>>> debug> "error: input: reading user-input failed!"

This is the error message from input.cc (get_user_input) when it can't
understand to input its given. Maybe the control-c is the cause of this
issue though I don't see why.

Sorry my mistake, I can use quit and exit. I just realized it is still in the loop so it will enter into debug again. I thought I couldn't exit.

But I still have the same problem after I use control-C. I will try to see whether I can create a simpler input file that gives the same symptoms. I will send it to you.

Thanks