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Oracle Solaris Studio 12.3: Debugging a Program With dbx     Oracle Solaris Studio 12.3 Information Library
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Preface

1.  Getting Started With dbx

2.  Starting dbx

Starting a Debugging Session

Debugging a Core File

Debugging a Core File in the Same Operating Environment

If Your Core File Is Truncated

Debugging a Mismatched Core File

Eliminating Shared Library Problems

Things to Remember

Using the Process ID

The dbx Startup Sequence

Setting Startup Properties

Mapping the Compile-time Directory to the Debug-time Directory

Setting dbx Environment Variables

Creating Your Own dbx Commands

Compiling a Program for Debugging

Compiling with the -g Option

Using a Separate Debug File

Creating a Separate Debug File

Debugging Optimized Code

Parameters and Variables

Inlined Functions

Code Compiled Without the -g Option

Shared Libraries Require the -g Option for Full dbx Support

Completely Stripped Programs

Quitting Debugging

Stopping a Process Execution

Detaching a Process From dbx

Killing a Program Without Terminating the Session

Saving and Restoring a Debugging Run

Using the save Command

Saving a Series of Debugging Runs as Checkpoints

Restoring a Saved Run

Saving and Restoring Using replay

3.  Customizing dbx

4.  Viewing and Navigating To Code

5.  Controlling Program Execution

6.  Setting Breakpoints and Traces

7.  Using the Call Stack

8.  Evaluating and Displaying Data

9.  Using Runtime Checking

10.  Fixing and Continuing

11.  Debugging Multithreaded Applications

12.  Debugging Child Processes

13.  Debugging OpenMP Programs

14.  Working With Signals

15.  Debugging C++ With dbx

16.  Debugging Fortran Using dbx

17.  Debugging a Java Application With dbx

18.  Debugging at the Machine-Instruction Level

19.  Using dbx With the Korn Shell

20.  Debugging Shared Libraries

A.  Modifying a Program State

B.  Event Management

C.  Macros

D.  Command Reference

Index

The dbx Startup Sequence

When you start dbx, if you do not specify the -S option, dbx looks for the installed startup file, dbxrc, in the directory /installation_directory/lib. (The default installation_directory is /opt/solstudio12.2 on Solaris platforms and /opt/oracle/solstudio12.2 on Linux platforms.) If your Oracle Solaris Studio software is not installed in the default directory, dbx derives the path to the dbxrc file from the path to the dbx executable.

Then dbx searches for a .dbxrc file in the current directory, then in $HOME. You can specify a different startup file than .dbxrc explicitly by specifying the file path using the -s option. For more information, see Using the dbx Initialization File.

A startup file may contain any dbx command, and commonly contains the alias command, dbxenv command, pathmap command, and Korn shell function definitions. However, certain commands require that a program has been loaded or a process has been attached to. All startup files are loaded before the program or process is loaded. The startup file may also source other files using the source or .(period) command. You can also use the startup file to set other dbx options.

As dbx loads program information, it prints a series of messages, such as Reading filename.

Once the program is finished loading, dbx is in a ready state, visiting the “main” block of the program (for C or C++: main(); for Fortran 95: MAIN()). Typically, you set a breakpoint (for example, stop in main) and then issue a run command for a C program.