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From: rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: caller doesn't work in signal handler
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Date: 11 Apr 91 20:47:11 GMT
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In <1991Apr10.233240.29339@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU> worley@compass.com writes:
>I was hoping to use the interval timer to do some crude profiling of
>my Perl program, but I discovered that the call forced by a signal
>does not set whatever it is that 'caller' reads.  Can this be fixed?

Perhaps. But you may want to add a bit of extra code yourself,
so that you can profile *sections* within a subroutine.

Add push(@where,"here") and pop(@where) to your code
at entrance/exit of functions or interesting pieces of code.
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