dbx is a source-level
debugger found primarily on
Solaris
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,
AIX,
IRIX
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,
Tru64 UNIX
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,
Linux and
BSD
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operating systems. It provides symbolic debugging for programs written in
C,
C++,
Fortran,
Pascal
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and
Java. Useful features include stepping through programs one
source line or
machine instruction at a time. In addition to simply viewing operation of the program,
variables can be manipulated and a wide range of expressions can be evaluated and displayed.
History
dbx was originally developed at
University of California, Berkeley, by Mark Linton during the years 1981–1984
and subsequently made its way to various vendors who had licensed BSD.
Availability
Besides being provided to various vendors through BSD, dbx has also found its way into other products:
* dbx is also available on
IBM z/OS systems, in the
UNIX System Services component. dbx for z/OS can debug programs written in C and C++, and can also perform machine level debugging. As of z/OS V1R5, dbx is able to debug programs using the
DWARF debug format. z/OS V1R6 added support for debugging
64-bit programs.
* dbx is included as part of the
Oracle Solaris Studio product from
Oracle Corporation
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, and is supported on both Solaris and
Linux. It supports programs compiled with the Oracle Solaris Studio compilers and
GCC.
See also
*
Modular Debugger (mdb)
*
GNU Debugger
References
External links
dbx for z/OSSun Studio Compilers and Toolsfor Solaris OS and Linux
*
Sun Studio 12: Debugging a Program With dbx*
Debuggers
Unix programming tools
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