Inspect Manual

Glossary
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Inspect process
Inspect process. The terminal process that enables you to debug programs distributed
across several DMONs and TCPs. In addition, the Inspect process enables Inspect to
access symbol information and source code for programs written in all languages.
Inspect prompt. The prompt that Inspect displays when awaiting your command. See
Prompting for Commands on page 2-3.
Inspect region. The region of a TNS object file that contains symbol tables for all blocks
compiled with the SYMBOLS directive. The Inspect region is sometimes called the
symbols region.
INSPSNAP. The program that provides a process snapshot file for the Inspect subsystem.
Inspect session. The time period during which you debug interactively using the same
Inspect process. An Inspect session begins when IMON first creates an Inspect
process on your terminal, and continues until you terminate that process.
instance. A specific activation of a scope unit. If a scope unit calls itself, several activations
of that scope unit will appear in the call history. Each such activation is an instance.
Intel® Itanium® instructions. Register-oriented Itanium instructions that are native to and
directly executed by a TNS/E system. Itanium instructions do not execute on TNS and
TNS/R systems. Contrast with TNS instructions.
The Object Code Accelerator (OCA) produces Itanium instructions to accelerate TNS
object code. A TNS/E native compiler produces native-compiled Itanium instructions
when it compiles source code.
Intel Itanium instruction region. The region of a TNS object file that contains Itanium
instructions and the tables necessary to execute the instructions in accelerated mode
on a TNS/E system. The Object Code Accelerator (OCA) creates this region and writes
it into the TNS object file. Synonym for OCA region of an object file. Contrast with
MIPS region of a TNS object file
Intel Itanium word. An instruction-set-defined unit of memory. An Itanium word is 4 bytes
(32 bits) wide, beginning on any 4-byte boundary in memory. Contrast with TNS word
and word. See also MIPS RISC word.
interpreted mode. See TNS interpreted mode
.
ld utility. The utility (also called the native PIC linker) that collects, links, and modifies code
blocks and data blocks from one or more object files to produce a target TNS/R native
object file with shared code (PIC). Compare to nld utility and eld utility. Compare to nld
utility and ld utility
linker. A system utility that collects, links, and modifies code and data blocks from one or
more object files to produce a target object file or loadfile
.
Four linkers are available on NonStop systems: