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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

Running a Program

When you first load a program into dbx, dbx navigates to the program’s “main” block (main for C, C++, and Fortran 90; MAIN for Fortran 77; the main class for Java code). dbx waits for you to issue further commands; you can navigate through code or use event management commands.

You can set breakpoints in the program before running it.


Note - When debugging an application that is a mixture of Java code and C JNI (Java Native Interface) code or C++ JNI code, you may want to set breakpoints in code that has not yet been loaded. For information on setting breakpoints on such code, see Setting Breakpoints in Native (JNI) Code .


Use the run command to start program execution.

To run a program in dbx without arguments, type:

(dbx) run

You can optionally add command-line arguments and redirection of input and output.

(dbx) run [arguments][ < input_file] [ > output_file]

Note - You cannot redirect the input and output of a Java application.


Output from the run command overwrites an existing file even if you have set noclobber for the shell in which you are running dbx.

The run command without arguments restarts the program using the previous arguments and redirection. For more information, see run Command. The rerun command restarts the program and clears the original arguments and redirection. For more information, see rerun Command.