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Oracle^® Solaris Studio 12.4: Debugging a Program With dbx

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Updated: January 2015

Oracle^® Solaris Studio 12.4: Debugging a Program With dbx

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Using This Documentation

Chapter 1 Getting Started With dbx

Chapter 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

Using the Process ID

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

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

Chapter 3 Customizing dbx

Chapter 4 Viewing and Navigating To Code

Chapter 5 Controlling Program Execution

Chapter 6 Setting Breakpoints and Traces

Chapter 7 Using the Call Stack

Chapter 8 Evaluating and Displaying Data

Chapter 9 Using Runtime Checking

Chapter 10 Fixing and Continuing

Chapter 11 Debugging Multithreaded Applications

Chapter 12 Debugging Child Processes

Chapter 13 Debugging OpenMP Programs

Chapter 14 Working With Signals

Chapter 15 Debugging C++ With dbx

Chapter 16 Debugging Fortran Using dbx

Chapter 17 Debugging a Java Application With dbx

Chapter 18 Debugging at the Machine-Instruction Level

Chapter 19 Using dbx With the Korn Shell

Chapter 20 Debugging Shared Libraries

Appendix A Modifying a Program State

Appendix B Event Management

Appendix C Macros

Appendix D Command Reference

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Creating Your Own `dbx` Commands

You can create your own dbx commands using the kalias or dalias commands. For more information, see dalias Command.

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