Debugging at the Machine-Instruction Level

This chapter describes how to use event management and process control commands at the machine-instruction level, how to display the contents of memory at specified addresses, and how to display source lines along with their corresponding machine instructions. The next command, step command, stop command, and trace command each support a machine-instruction level variant: the nexti command, stepi command, stopi command, and tracei command. Use the regs command to print out the contents of machine registers or the print command to print out individual registers.

This chapter is organized into the following sections:

• Examining the Contents of Memory

• Stepping and Tracing at Machine-Instruction Level

• Setting Breakpoints at the Machine-Instruction Level

• Using the regs Command