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title	id	weight	draft	author
new_tracepoint	new-tracepoint	30	false	people

NAME

new_tracepoint

create a function returning a tracepoint

local dd = require "lib/dtutils.debug"
local result = dd.new_tracepoint(name, ...)

name - string - the name of the tracepoint to print out
... - arguments - variables to dump the contents of

new_tracepoint returns a tracepoint function with the given name. This is mainly used to debug callbacks.

result - function - a function that returns the result of a tracepoint

register_event(event, dd.new_tracepoint("hit callback"))

will print the following each time the callback is called

**** hit callback ****
<all the callback's parameters dumped>