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Prism 6.0 Reference Manual

Prism Equivalents for Common GDB and dbx Commands

The following tables list approximately equivalent Prism commands for some common dbx and GNU Debugging (GDB) commands.

Table B-1 Breakpoints and Watchpoints

GDB 

dbx  

Prism 

break line

stop at line

stop at line

break func

stop in func

stop in func

break *addr

stopi at addr

stopi {addr}

break ... if expr

stop ... -if expr

stop ... if expr

cond n

stop ... -if expr

stop ... if expr

watch expr

stop expr

stop expr

info break

status

status

info watch

status

status

clear fun

delete n

delete n

delete

delete all

delete all

disable n

handler -disable n

disable n

enable n

handler -enable n

enable n

ignore n cnt

handler -count n cnt

ignore

commands n

when ... { cmds; }

when ... { cmds; }

Table B-2 Program Stack

GDB 

dbx 

Prism 

backtrace n

where n

where n

info reg reg

print $reg

print $reg

Table B-3 Execution Control

GDB 

dbx 

Prism 

finish

step up

stepout

signal num

cont sig num

cont num

set var=expr

assign var=expr

assign var=expr

Table B-4 Display

GDB 

dbx 

Prism 

x/fmt addr

x addr/fmt

addr/[mode]

disassem addr

dis addr

addr/i

Table B-5 Shell Commands

GDB 

dbx 

Prism 

shell cmd

sh cmd

sh cmd

Table B-6 Signals

GDB 

dbx 

Prism 

handle sig

stop sig sig

catch sig

Table B-7 Debugging Targets

GDB 

dbx 

Prism 

attach pid

debug - pid

attach pid

attach pid

debug a.out pid

attach pid

exec file

debug file

load file

core file

debug a.out corefile

load a.out; core corefile

Table B-8 Controlling the Debugger

GDB 

dbx 

Prism 

dir name

pathmap name

use name

show dir

pathmap

use

Table B-9 Source Files

GDB 

dbx 

Prism 

forw regex

search regexp

/

rev regex

bsearch regexp

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