Native Inspect Manual (H06.03+)
Table Of Contents
- What’s New in This Manual
- About This Manual
- 1 Introducing Native Inspect
- Native Inspect on TNS/E Systems
- Debuggers on NonStop TNS/E Systems
- Origins of Native Inspect
- Process Debugging With Native Inspect
- Debugging Multiple Processes
- Global Debugging
- Debugging TNS Processes
- Snapshot File Analysis
- Debugging DLLs
- Handling Events
- Switching Debuggers (To or From Inspect and Visual Inspect)
- Stopping Native Inspect
- Differences Between Native Inspect and WDB and GDB
- 2 Using Native Inspect
- Quick Start for Inspect Users
- Preparing to Debug Using Native Inspect
- Sample Native Inspect Session
- Start Your Program Under Native Inspect
- Load Symbols
- Determine Compilation-Time Source Name
- Set Source Name Mapping
- Add Current Directory to Source Search Path
- List Source
- Set a Breakpoint on main()
- Continue Execution
- Trace the Stack (Back Trace)
- List Source
- Step Execution (Over Any Function Calls)
- Print a Variable
- Step Execution (Over Any Function Calls)
- Step In to a Called Function
- Set a Memory Access Breakpoint (MAB)
- Trace the Stack (Back Trace)
- List Source
- Continue Listing Source
- Set a Breakpoint on Line 52
- Continue Execution
- Display a Structure
- Enable “pretty” Printing
- Modify a Structure Field
- Terminate Program and Session
- 3 Syntax of Native Inspect Commands
- Categories of Native Inspect Commands
- Syntax of Common Command Elements
- # command
- a command
- add-symbol-file command
- amap command
- attach command
- base command
- break command, tbreak command
- bt command
- can command
- cd command
- commands command
- comment command
- condition command
- continue command
- d command
- delete command
- delete display command
- detach command
- dir command
- disable command
- disable display command
- disassemble command, da command
- display command
- dmab command
- down command, down-silently command
- enable command
- enable display command
- env command
- eq command
- exit command
- fc command
- files command
- finish command
- fn command
- frame command, select-frame command
- help command, help option
- hold command
- i command
- ignore command
- ih command
- info command
- jb command
- jump command
- kill command
- list command
- log command
- ls command
- mab command
- map-source-name command
- mh command
- modify command
- next command, nexti command
- nocstm option
- output command
- print command
- priv command
- ptype command
- pwd command
- quit command
- reg command
- save command
- select-frame command
- set command (environment)
- set command (variable)
- show command
- snapshot command
- source command
- step command, stepi command
- switch command
- symbol command, symbol-file command
- tbreak command
- tj command, tu command
- tn command
- unload-symbol-file command
- until command
- up command, up-silently command
- vector command
- version option
- vq command
- wait command
- whatis command
- x command
- 4 Using Tcl Scripting
- A Command Mapping With Debug and Inspect
- Glossary
- Index

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Syntax of Native Inspect Commands
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Categories of Native Inspect Commands on page 3-1
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Table 3-1, Commands of Native Inspect, on page 3-1 (commands listed in related
groups)
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Syntax of Common Command Elements on page 3-6
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Detailed syntax and examples for all the Native Inspect commands in alphabetic
order (from # command to x command)
Categories of Native Inspect Commands
In Table 3-1, Native Inspect commands are grouped as follows:
Command-line options (help, nocstm, and so on)
Utility commands (files, fc, dir, map, and so on)
Session control commands (attach/detach, switch, vector, and so on)
Snapshot commands (save and snapshot)
Process control commands (continue, next, until, and so on)
Execution control commands (ih and mh)
Breakpoint commands (break/tbreak, enable/disable, mab))
Memory and register commands (disassemble, display, reg, x, and so on)
Stack commands (down, up, frame, and so on)
Object and symbol file commands (symbol, ptype, whatis, and so on)
Memory management command (vq)
Table 3-1. Commands of Native Inspect (page 1 of 5)
Group Name and
Command Name Function
Command-Line Options
help command, help
option
Displays the syntax of all the command-line options
nocstm option
Specifies that Native Inspect is not to process the EINSCTSM
custom file
version option
Displays version information about GDB, Tcl, and Native
Inspect
Utility Commands
amap command
Displays attributes associated with an address
base command
Sets the base for numeric input and output
cd command
Changes the current working directory










