I have no possibility to test, but I suspect it's related to new features like function signatures.

In a compilation phase they are rewriting the first lines of a functions body.*

Probably your postponed breakpoint happens earlier and points to a line which disappears then.

> I'm not sure where to begin debugging the issue

Otherwise in order to narrow down the cause, you can easily test if it's a problem in the debugger's code.

Perl evaluates (if present) at start up an environment variable pointing to the debugger script to use, normally named perl5db.pl .

It should be possible to run a newer Perl version with an older perl5db.pl, and vice versa.

IIRC the variable is named PERLDB. (to be updated)

HTH! :)

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Cheers Rolf
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footnotes

*) See http://www.effectiveperlprogramming.com/2015/04/use-v5-20-subroutine-signatures/ she Brian is using B::Deparse to analyze the generated code.

In reply to Re: debugger is not stopping at postponed breakpoints (Signatures and PERL5DB) by LanX
in thread debugger is not stopping at postponed breakpoints by jkahrman

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