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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

3.  Customizing dbx

4.  Viewing and Navigating To Code

5.  Controlling Program Execution

Running a Program

Attaching dbx to a Running Process

Detaching dbx From a Process

Stepping Through a Program

Single Stepping

Stepping Into a Function

Continuing Execution of a Program

To Resume Program Execution at a Specific Line

Calling a Function

Call Safety

Using Ctrl+C to Stop a Process

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

Chapter 5

Controlling Program Execution

The commands used for running, stepping, and continuing (run, rerun, next, step, and cont) are called process control commands. Used together with the event management commands described in cont at Command, you can control the run-time behavior of a program as it executes under dbx.

This chapter is organized into the following sections: