Options and Parameters |
Mode |
Description |
-c file
-command
file |
Default |
Specifies an initialization command file.
The default initialization file is .dbxinitidbsetup.idb.
During startup, the debugger searches for this file in the current directory.
If it is not there, the debugger searches your home directory. This file
is processed after the target process has been loaded or attached to. |
| -cd
dir |
Default |
Specifies a new working directory. |
| -echo |
Default |
Causes the debugger to print the prompt
when running in a non-interactive session. |
| -gdb |
Default |
Causes the debugger to use GDB compatibility
mode and the gdb_options options set. |
| -gui |
Default |
Activates the debugger's graphical user
interface (GUI). |
-emacs
-fullname |
Default |
Output file and line number markers for
Emacs*. |
| -help |
Default |
Print help message and exit. |
| -i
file |
Default |
Specifies a pre-initialization command
file. The default pre-initialization file is .idbrc. The debugger searches
for this file during startup, first in the current directory and then
in your home directory. This file is processed before the debugger has
connected to the application being debugged, so that commands such as
set $stoponattach = 1 will have taken effect
when the connection is made. |
| -I
dir |
Default |
Specifies the directory containing the
source code for the target program, in a manner similar to the use
command. Use multiple -I options
to specify more than one directory. The debugger searches directories
in the order in which they were specified on the command line. |
| -interactive
|
Default |
Causes the debugger to act as though
stdin is isatty(), regardless
of whether or not it is. This flag is sometimes useful when using rsh to run the debugger. Currently, the only effect
is to cause the debugger to output the prompt to stdout
when it is ready for the next line of input. |
| -maxruntime
minutes |
Default |
Specifies the maximum allowable runtime
in minutes for the debugging session. |
| -nosharedobjs |
Default |
Prevents the reading of symbol table
information for any shared objects loaded when the process executes.
Later in the debug session, you can enter the readsharedobj
command to read the symbol table information for a specified object. |
| -parallel
launcher launcher_args |
Default |
Starts a debugging session on a parallel
application created by launcher with arguments launcher_args.
See Debugging
Parallel Applications for details on using the parallel debugging
feature. |
| -pid
pid |
Default |
Specifies the process ID of the process
to be debugged. |
| -prompt
string |
Default |
Specifies a debugger prompt. If the prompt argument contains spaces
or special characters, enclose the argument in quotes ("").
You can specify a debugger prompt when you start the debugger from a shell with the -prompt
option. The default debugger prompt is (idb).
% idb -prompt ">>
"
>> quit
Default Mode
You can also change the prompt by setting the $prompt
debugger variable. For example:
(idb) set $prompt = "newPrompt>>
"
newPrompt>>
GDB Mode
Use set prompt prompt to specify
a new prompt to use henceforth. To see the prompt used by the debugger,
type the show prompt command.
(idb) set prompt
(gdb mode)
(gdb mode) show
prompt
idb's prompt is "(gdb mode) ".
(gdb mode)
 Note:
There is a space at the end of the first line of the example
above. If the space is missed, the result will be as follows:
(idb) set prompt (gdb mode)
(gdb mode)show prompt
idb's prompt is "(gdb mode)".
(gdb mode) |
|
-quiet |
Default |
Causes the debugger to start but not to print sign-on message. |
|
-tty terminal_device
|
Default |
Specifies the input/output tty device for the user program. |
-V
-version |
Default |
Displays the banner, including the version. |
| executable_file
|
ALL |
Specifies the program executable file. |
| core_file |
ALL |
Specifies the core file. |