New and Changed dbx Features

The following features were added or changed in dbx . For more information, see Oracle Developer Studio 12.5: Debugging a Program with dbx, the dbx(1) man page and the dbx help file. To access the dbx help file, type the following:

% dbx
(dbx) help

• dbx version updated to 8.1 from 8.0.

• Support for compressed debug information. See Compressed Debug Sections (Oracle Solaris Only) in Oracle Developer Studio 12.5: Debugging a Program with dbx.

• New option –a for the whatis command. The –a option prints data members only.

• New dbx environment variable output_data_member_only. If set to on, prints data members only.

• Support for handling Position Independent Executables (PIE) added.

• Support added for Secured Silicon Memory (SSM) on Oracle Solaris 11 on SPARC. Use the dbx command adi to use this feature.

• Support for the following C++11 features: user defined literals.

• Support for the following C++14 features:binary literals; single-quote digit separator.

• Support for the following C11 features: type generic expressions.

• Change in the following register names, to be more consistent across Intel platforms:

  Previous Name New Name fs_base fsbase gs_base gsbase fcwd fcw fswd fsw ftw fctw mxcr_mask Removed uesp Removed

For more information, issue a help changes command under dbx, to access the dbx help file.