From aradul@storystreet.com

Dear Sir or Madam,

We are using perl, version 5.005_03 built for sun4-solaris
There are some recursive procedures in our code, and

prel -d ./script.pl

generates the following messages​:

100 levels deep in subroutine calls!

looping inside some required packages and their constructors.
Attempts to continue, return, etc does not get the debugger out
of the loop in a reasonable time. The loop is not infinite​: wihtout
debugging the code
works.

Questions.

Is that a known property of the perl debugger, or something is
wrong with our code?

What can we do to enable debugging of the desired parts of our code,
without rewriting it?

Sicerely Yours,
Andrey Radul

From @rspier

chromatic say​:

Bug #3021 is able to be closed; this is a feature of the Perl
debugger. $deep is hardcoded at 100 in DB.pm, but it seems only to
apply when single-stepping through code.

@rspier - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'