Types of Suppression (Sun Studio 12 Update 1: Debugging a Program With dbx)

Sun Studio 12 Update 1: Debugging a Program With dbx

Types of Suppression

The following types of suppression are available:

Suppression by Scope and Type

You must specify which type of error to suppress. You can specify which parts of the program to suppress. The options are:

Option	Description
Global	The default; applies to the whole program.
Load Object	Applies to an entire load object, such as a shared library, or the main program.
File	Applies to all functions in a particular file.
Function	Applies to a particular function.
Line	Applies to a particular source line.
Address	Applies to a particular instruction at an address.

Suppression of Last Error

By default, runtime checking suppresses the most recent error to prevent repeated reports of the same error. This is controlled by the dbx environment variable rtc_auto_suppress. When rtc_auto_suppress is set to on (the default), a particular access error at a particular location is reported only the first time it is encountered and suppressed thereafter. This is useful, for example, for preventing multiple copies of the same error report when an error occurs in a loop that is executed many times.

Limiting the Number of Errors Reported

You can use the dbx environment variable rtc_error_limit to limit the number of errors that will be reported. The error limit is used separately for access errors and leak errors. For example, if the error limit is set to 5, then a maximum of five access errors and five memory leaks are shown in both the leak report at the end of the run and for each showleaks command you issue. The default is 1000.