[ptp-dev] Questions about debugger support

[Dave Wootton <dwootton@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Greg
I took a quick look at what happens when I try to run a PE application in 
a debug session. At this point I'm just trying to understand what happens 
with the run command so I can begin to understand how a debugger works. 

I see several parameters that are present when running in debug mode. It's 
pretty obvious debugExecPath and debugExecName are components of the top 
level debugger executable path name and debugArgs are parameters to the 
debuger. I suspect that you intend that execPath be passed to the debugger 
as the name of the executable to debug. I'm not sure what happens with 
debugStopInMain and launchedByPTP. It also looks like the debug=true is 
intended to be a flag to the proxy that tells me that a debugger is to be 
launched instead of an application.

I think debugging would fail pretty quickly once the top level debug 
executable is started since we aren't doing anything about the per-task 
setup of environment variables that PE requires in order to run a parallel 
application or any of the other setup that the application needs in order 
to run.

Dave