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8 Using Inspect With C
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Starting to Debug a C Program on page 8-1
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Scope Units and Scope Paths on page 8-1
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Code Locations on page 8-2
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Data Locations on page 8-5
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Expressions on page 8-7
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C Data Types and Inspect on page 8-8
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Inspect Enhancements and Restrictions for C on page 8-10
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Command Usage Guidelines for C Programmers on page 8-11
Starting to Debug a C Program
When you start a C program, the C library performs certain start-up operations before
your program begins executing. To execute the start-up code and get to your program,
set a breakpoint in your program then resume execution; for example:
Scope Units and Scope Paths
C has only one type of scope unit: the function. When debugging a program written in
C, you must specify a function name whenever an Inspect command expects a scope
unit.
Use this syntax to identify C scope paths in Inspect:
-COBJ- BREAK #main
-COBJ- RESUME
scope-path:
#function