Native Inspect Manual (H06.13+, J06.03+)

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1 Introducing Native Inspect

Native Inspect on TNS/E Systems

Native Inspect is a system-level command-line symbolic debugger that you use to debug TNS/E

native processes and snapshot files. Native Inspect runs only on a NonStop TNS/E host system

(not on a TNS/R or TNS system).

You can use Native Inspect to do the following tasks:

• To debug TNS/E native programs or snapshot files written in TNS/E native C/C++, pTAL, or

TNS/E native COBOL, especially when Visual Inspect is not available

• To use a Tool Command Language (Tcl) script for automating debugging operations on TNS/E

native debugging targets

• To perform privileged or global debugging on TNS/E native programs

Debuggers on NonStop TNS/E Systems

TNS/R systems support two command-line debuggers: Debug and Inspect. On a TNS/E system,

Native Inspect replaces both Debug and Inspect. Debug does not exist on TNS/E systems. Inspect

is present on TNS/E systems, but you can use it only to debug emulated TNS processes. You

cannot use Inspect to debug native TNS/E processes and snapshot files. Table 4 summarizes the

debugger availability by system type.

Table 4 Debugger Availability by System Type

Visual InspectNative InspectInspectDebugSystem

NoNoYesYesTNS/R

Yes

YesEmulatedNoTNS/E

Requires a Windows workstation.

Table 5 provides usage scenarios for Native Inspect, Visual Inspect, and Inspect on a TNS/E

system. For each debugger, symbolic debugging is available for code optimized at level 0 or 1,

and debugging support is limited for code optimized at level 2.

Table 5 Using Debugging Options on TNS/E Systems

Languages SupportedType or State You Can DebugIDDebugger to Use

TNS/E native C/C++TNS/E native processes (executing in the

same CPU).

T1237Native Inspect on

NonStop TNS/E systems.

TNS/E native COBOLSnapshot files that save the state of TNS/E

native processes.

pTAL

TNS/E native C/C++TNS/E native processes.T7877,

T9756,

Visual Inspect on

Windows.

TNS/E native COBOLTNS/E and TNS/R native snapshot files.

T9226,

T9673.

pTALEmulated TNS processes.

TNS FortranEmulated TNS processes on TNS/E systems

(either accelerated with OCA or interpreted

with OCI).

T9673Inspect on NonStop

TNS/E.

TNS COBOLSnapshot files of all processes (TNS/R native,

TNS/E native and nonnative).

TAL

TNS C/C++

Screen COBOL

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