Inspect Manual

Using Inspect With C
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SCOPE
SCOPE
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If you have identifiers of the same name in different scope units, be sure that you
qualify the identifiers enough for Inspect to distinguish them.
SET RADIX
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Even if you set your input radix to hexadecimal, you must still prefix a hexadecimal
value with 0x or 0X if its first digit is aboveþ9; otherwise, Inspect interprets the
value as an identifier.
STEP
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The STEP command defaults to STATEMENTS if no code-unit is specified. All
other instances of STATEMENTS and INSTRUCTIONS in using Inspect with C (all
code-location offsets as used in the BREAK command, for example) default to
INSTRUCTIONS if neither is specified.

The STEP command requires caution if switch statements or for loops are in
the path. The stepping behavior of these two statements is unexpected.
Recall that a switch selects one statement from a set of statements, depending
on the value of a numeric expression. A STEP of one statement from the
beginning of a switch statement takes you to the end of the entire switch
statement. A subsequent STEP of one statement will take you to the selected
case or default statement.
If your process is at the beginning of a single-statement for loop (the loop body is
a single statement, not a block), entering STEP 1S gets you to the beginning of the
single statement, and entering STEP 2S completes execution of the loop.