Enabling All Runtime Checking

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

Document Information

Using This Documentation

Chapter 1 Getting Started With dbx

Chapter 2 Starting dbx

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

Capabilities of Runtime Checking

When to Use Runtime Checking

Runtime Checking Requirements

Using Runtime Checking

Enabling Memory Use and Memory Leak Checking

Enabling Memory Access Checking

Enabling All Runtime Checking

Disabling Runtime Checking

Running Your Program

Using Access Checking

Understanding the Memory Access Error Report

Memory Access Errors

Using Memory Leak Checking

Detecting Memory Leak Errors

Possible Leaks

Checking for Leaks

Understanding the Memory Leak Report

Fixing Memory Leaks

Using Memory Use Checking

Suppressing Errors

Types of Suppression

Suppressing Error Examples

Default Suppressions

Using Suppression to Manage Errors

Using Runtime Checking on a Child Process

Using Runtime Checking on an Attached Process

Attached Process on a System Running Oracle Solaris

Attached Process on a System Running Linux

Using Fix and Continue With Runtime Checking

Runtime Checking Application Programming Interface

Using Runtime Checking in Batch Mode

bcheck Syntax

bcheck Examples

Enabling Batch Mode Directly From dbx

Troubleshooting Tips

Runtime Checking Limitations

Performance Improves With More Symbols and Debug Information

SIGSEGV and SIGALTSTACK Signals Are Restricted on x86 Platforms

Performance Improves When Sufficient Patch Area Is Available Within 8 MB of All Existing Code (SPARC Platforms Only).

Runtime Checking Errors

Access Errors

Memory Leak Errors

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

Index

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Use the following command to enable memory leak, memory use, and memory access checking:

(dbx) check -all

For more information , see check Command.