5 diagnostics - Perl compiler pragma to force verbose warning diagnostics
7 splain - standalone program to do the same thing
14 use diagnostics -verbose;
21 perl program 2>diag.out
22 splain [-v] [-p] diag.out
27 =head2 The C<diagnostics> Pragma
29 This module extends the terse diagnostics normally emitted by both the
30 perl compiler and the perl interpreter, augmenting them with the more
31 explicative and endearing descriptions found in L<perldiag>. Like the
32 other pragmata, it affects the compilation phase of your program rather
33 than merely the execution phase.
35 To use in your program as a pragma, merely invoke
39 at the start (or near the start) of your program. (Note
40 that this I<does> enable perl's B<-w> flag.) Your whole
41 compilation will then be subject(ed :-) to the enhanced diagnostics.
42 These still go out B<STDERR>.
44 Due to the interaction between runtime and compiletime issues,
45 and because it's probably not a very good idea anyway,
46 you may not use C<no diagnostics> to turn them off at compiletime.
47 However, you may control their behaviour at runtime using the
48 disable() and enable() methods to turn them off and on respectively.
50 The B<-verbose> flag first prints out the L<perldiag> introduction before
51 any other diagnostics. The $diagnostics::PRETTY variable can generate nicer
52 escape sequences for pagers.
54 Warnings dispatched from perl itself (or more accurately, those that match
55 descriptions found in L<perldiag>) are only displayed once (no duplicate
56 descriptions). User code generated warnings ala warn() are unaffected,
57 allowing duplicate user messages to be displayed.
59 =head2 The I<splain> Program
61 While apparently a whole nuther program, I<splain> is actually nothing
62 more than a link to the (executable) F<diagnostics.pm> module, as well as
63 a link to the F<diagnostics.pod> documentation. The B<-v> flag is like
64 the C<use diagnostics -verbose> directive.
65 The B<-p> flag is like the
66 $diagnostics::PRETTY variable. Since you're post-processing with
67 I<splain>, there's no sense in being able to enable() or disable() processing.
69 Output from I<splain> is directed to B<STDOUT>, unlike the pragma.
73 The following file is certain to trigger a few errors at both
74 runtime and compiletime:
77 print NOWHERE "nothing\n";
78 print STDERR "\n\tThis message should be unadorned.\n";
79 warn "\tThis is a user warning";
80 print "\nDIAGNOSTIC TESTER: Please enter a <CR> here: ";
81 my $a, $b = scalar <STDIN>;
85 If you prefer to run your program first and look at its problem
88 perl -w test.pl 2>test.out
91 Note that this is not in general possible in shells of more dubious heritage,
94 (perl -w test.pl >/dev/tty) >& test.out
97 Because you just moved the existing B<stdout> to somewhere else.
99 If you don't want to modify your source code, but still have on-the-fly
102 exec 3>&1; perl -w test.pl 2>&1 1>&3 3>&- | splain 1>&2 3>&-
106 If you want to control warnings on the fly, do something like this.
107 Make sure you do the C<use> first, or you won't be able to get
108 at the enable() or disable() methods.
110 use diagnostics; # checks entire compilation phase
111 print "\ntime for 1st bogus diags: SQUAWKINGS\n";
113 print "done with 1st bogus\n";
115 disable diagnostics; # only turns off runtime warnings
116 print "\ntime for 2nd bogus: (squelched)\n";
118 print "done with 2nd bogus\n";
120 enable diagnostics; # turns back on runtime warnings
121 print "\ntime for 3rd bogus: SQUAWKINGS\n";
123 print "done with 3rd bogus\n";
126 print "\ntime for 4th bogus: (squelched)\n";
128 print "done with 4th bogus\n";
132 Diagnostic messages derive from the F<perldiag.pod> file when available at
133 runtime. Otherwise, they may be embedded in the file itself when the
134 splain package is built. See the F<Makefile> for details.
136 If an extant $SIG{__WARN__} handler is discovered, it will continue
137 to be honored, but only after the diagnostics::splainthis() function
138 (the module's $SIG{__WARN__} interceptor) has had its way with your
141 There is a $diagnostics::DEBUG variable you may set if you're desperately
142 curious what sorts of things are being intercepted.
144 BEGIN { $diagnostics::DEBUG = 1 }
149 Not being able to say "no diagnostics" is annoying, but may not be
152 The C<-pretty> directive is called too late to affect matters.
153 You have to do this instead, and I<before> you load the module.
155 BEGIN { $diagnostics::PRETTY = 1 }
157 I could start up faster by delaying compilation until it should be
158 needed, but this gets a "panic: top_level" when using the pragma form
161 While it's true that this documentation is somewhat subserious, if you use
162 a program named I<splain>, you should expect a bit of whimsy.
166 Tom Christiansen <F<tchrist@mox.perl.com>>, 25 June 1995.
180 my($privlib, $archlib) = @Config{qw(privlibexp archlibexp)};
182 require VMS
::Filespec
;
183 $privlib = VMS
::Filespec
::unixify
($privlib);
184 $archlib = VMS
::Filespec
::unixify
($archlib);
187 "$archlib/pod/perldiag.pod",
188 "$privlib/pod/perldiag-$Config{version}.pod",
189 "$privlib/pod/perldiag.pod",
190 "$archlib/pods/perldiag.pod",
191 "$privlib/pods/perldiag-$Config{version}.pod",
192 "$privlib/pods/perldiag.pod",
194 # handy for development testing of new warnings etc
195 unshift @trypod, "./pod/perldiag.pod" if -e
"pod/perldiag.pod";
196 (my $PODFILE) = ((grep { -e
} @trypod), $trypod[$#trypod])[0];
198 if ($^O
eq 'MacOS') {
199 # just updir one from each lib dir, we'll find it ...
200 ($PODFILE) = grep { -e
} map { "$_:pod:perldiag.pod" } @INC;
204 my $WHOAMI = ref bless []; # nobody's business, prolly not even mine
210 my(%HTML_2_Troff, %HTML_2_Latin_1, %HTML_2_ASCII_7);
213 our $opt_p = our $opt_d = our $opt_v = our $opt_f = '';
218 Getopt
::Std
::getopts
('pdvf:')
219 or die "Usage: $0 [-v] [-p] [-f splainpod]";
220 $PODFILE = $opt_f if $opt_f;
221 $DEBUG = 2 if $opt_d;
226 if (open(POD_DIAG
, $PODFILE)) {
227 warn "Happy happy podfile from real $PODFILE\n" if $DEBUG;
233 for my $file ( (map { "$_/$WHOAMI.pm" } @INC), $0) {
234 warn "Checking $file\n" if $DEBUG;
235 if (open(POD_DIAG
, $file)) {
238 /^__END__\s*# wish diag dbase were more accessible/;
239 print STDERR
"podfile is $file\n" if $DEBUG;
246 print STDERR
"podfile is <DATA>\n" if $DEBUG;
247 *POD_DIAG
= *main
::DATA
;
251 die "couldn't find diagnostic data in $PODFILE @INC $0";
256 'amp' => '&', # ampersand
257 'lt' => '<', # left chevron, less-than
258 'gt' => '>', # right chevron, greater-than
259 'quot' => '"', # double quote
261 "Aacute" => "A\\*'", # capital A, acute accent
267 'amp' => '&', # ampersand
268 'lt' => '<', # left chevron, less-than
269 'gt' => '>', # right chevron, greater-than
270 'quot' => '"', # double quote
272 "Aacute" => "\xC1" # capital A, acute accent
278 'amp' => '&', # ampersand
279 'lt' => '<', # left chevron, less-than
280 'gt' => '>', # right chevron, greater-than
281 'quot' => '"', # double quote
283 "Aacute" => "A" # capital A, acute accent
290 $PRETTY ? \
%HTML_2_Latin_1 : \
%HTML_2_ASCII_7;
296 *THITHER
= $standalone ?
*STDOUT
: *STDERR
;
298 my $transmo = <<EOFUNC;
300 #local \$^W = 0; # recursive warnings we do NOT need!
306 print STDERR
"FINISHING COMPILATION for $_\n" if $DEBUG;
315 sub noop
{ return $_[0] } # spensive for a noop
316 sub bold
{ my $str =$_[0]; $str =~ s/(.)/$1\b$1/g; return $str; }
317 sub italic
{ my $str = $_[0]; $str =~ s/(.)/_\b$1/g; return $str; }
318 s/[BC]<(.*?)>/bold($1)/ges;
319 s/[LIF]<(.*?)>/italic($1)/ges;
322 s/[LIF]<(.*?)>/$1/gs;
325 if (defined $header) {
326 if ( $header eq 'DESCRIPTION' &&
327 ( /Optional warnings are enabled/
328 || /Some of these messages are generic./
339 unless ( s/=item (.*?)\s*\z//) {
341 if ( s/=head1\sDESCRIPTION//) {
342 $msg{$header = 'DESCRIPTION'} = '';
345 elsif( s/^=for\s+diagnostics\s*\n(.*?)\s*\z// ) {
351 # strip formatting directives in =item line
352 $header = $for_item || $1;
354 $header =~ s/[A-Z]<(.*?)>/$1/g;
356 if ($header =~ /%[csd]/) {
357 my $rhs = my $lhs = $header;
358 if ($lhs =~ s/(.*?)%d(?!%d)(.*)/\Q$1\E-?\\d+\Q$2\E/g) {
359 $lhs =~ s/\\%s/.*?/g;
361 # if i had lookbehind negations,
362 # i wouldn't have to do this \377 noise
363 $lhs =~ s/(.*?)%s/\Q$1\E.*?\377/g;
364 $lhs =~ s/\377([^\377]*)$/\Q$1\E/;
366 $lhs =~ s/\.\*\?$/.*/; # Allow %s at the end to eat it all
369 $transmo .= " s{^$lhs}\n {\Q$rhs\E}s\n\t&& return 1;\n";
371 $transmo .= " m{^\Q$header\E} && return 1;\n";
374 print STDERR
"$WHOAMI: Duplicate entry: \"$header\"\n"
381 close POD_DIAG
unless *main
::DATA
eq *POD_DIAG
;
383 die "No diagnostics?" unless %msg;
385 $transmo .= " return 0;\n}\n";
386 print STDERR
$transmo if $DEBUG;
392 if (!@ARGV and -t STDIN
) { print STDERR
"$0: Reading from STDIN\n" }
393 while (defined (my $error = <>)) {
394 splainthis
($error) || print THITHER
$error;
404 $^W
= 1; # yup, clobbered the global variable;
405 # tough, if you want diags, you want diags.
406 return if $SIG{__WARN__
} eq \
&warn_trap
;
410 /^-d(ebug)?$/ && do {
415 /^-v(erbose)?$/ && do {
420 /^-p(retty)?$/ && do {
421 print STDERR
"$0: I'm afraid it's too late for prettiness.\n";
426 warn "Unknown flag: $_";
429 $oldwarn = $SIG{__WARN__
};
430 $olddie = $SIG{__DIE__
};
431 $SIG{__WARN__
} = \
&warn_trap
;
432 $SIG{__DIE__
} = \
&death_trap
;
435 sub enable
{ &import
}
439 return unless $SIG{__WARN__
} eq \
&warn_trap
;
440 $SIG{__WARN__
} = $oldwarn || '';
441 $SIG{__DIE__
} = $olddie || '';
446 if (caller eq $WHOAMI or !splainthis
($warning)) {
447 print STDERR
$warning;
449 &$oldwarn if defined $oldwarn and $oldwarn and $oldwarn ne \
&warn_trap
;
453 my $exception = $_[0];
455 # See if we are coming from anywhere within an eval. If so we don't
456 # want to explain the exception because it's going to get caught.
460 my $caller = (caller($i++))[3] or last;
461 if ($caller eq '(eval)') {
467 splainthis
($exception) unless $in_eval;
468 if (caller eq $WHOAMI) { print STDERR
"INTERNAL EXCEPTION: $exception"; }
469 &$olddie if defined $olddie and $olddie and $olddie ne \
&death_trap
;
471 # We don't want to unset these if we're coming from an eval because
472 # then we've turned off diagnostics. (Actually what does this next
474 $SIG{__DIE__
} = $SIG{__WARN__
} = '' unless $in_eval;
475 local($Carp::CarpLevel
) = 1;
476 confess
"Uncaught exception from user code:\n\t$exception";
477 # up we go; where we stop, nobody knows, but i think we die now
478 # but i'm deeply afraid of the &$olddie guy reraising and us getting
479 # into an indirect recursion loop
489 ### &finish_compilation unless %msg;
492 # return unless defined;
493 s/, <.*?> (?:line|chunk).*$//;
494 my $real = s/(.*?) at .*? (?:line|chunk) \d+.*/$1/;
496 if ($exact_duplicate{$orig}++) {
500 return 0 unless &transmo
;
502 $orig = shorten
($orig);
505 print THITHER
"$orig (#$old_diag{$_})\n";
509 $old_diag{$_} = ++$count;
510 print THITHER
"\n" if $wantspace;
512 print THITHER
"$orig (#$old_diag{$_})\n";
514 print THITHER
$msg{$_};
516 if (0 and $standalone) {
517 print THITHER
" **** Error #$old_diag{$_} ",
518 ($real ?
"is" : "appears to be"),
519 " an unknown diagnostic message.\n\n";
528 if ($VERBOSE and not $count) {
529 print THITHER
&{$PRETTY ? \
&bold
: \
&noop
}("DESCRIPTION OF DIAGNOSTICS"),
530 "\n$msg{DESCRIPTION}\n";
541 exists $HTML_Escapes{$1}
542 ?
do { $HTML_Escapes{$1} }
544 warn "Unknown escape: E<$1> in $_";
553 if (length($line) > 79 and index($line, "\n") == -1) {
554 my $space_place = rindex($line, ' ', 79);
555 if ($space_place != -1) {
556 substr($line, $space_place, 1) = "\n\t";
563 1 unless $standalone; # or it'll complain about itself
564 __END__
# wish diag dbase were more accessible