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Module summary

Interpreter Interface.

Description

The Erlang interpreter provides mechanisms for breakpoints and stepwise execution of code. It is primarily intended to be used by Debugger, see the User's Guide and debugger(3).

The following can be done from the shell:

• Specify the modules to be interpreted.
• Specify breakpoints.
• Monitor the current status of all processes executing code in interpreted modules, also processes at other Erlang nodes.

By attaching to a process executing interpreted code, it is possible to examine variable bindings and order stepwise execution. This is done by sending and receiving information to/from the process through a third process, called the meta process. Yo