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Object Managers

This chapter describ es the debugger object managers, which allow the debugger to handle object and debug formats. The object managers process the debugging information in executable ￿les.

On HP-UX systems, the debugger uses the HP SOM object manager. On Solaris systems, the debugger uses the Solaris SPARC object manager.

This chapter provides the following information about each manager:

Type Name

Identi￿es the name used for the manager as installed.

Title

Contains the name that the manager uses to identify

 

itself. To list the titles of the managers currently

 

loaded, use the version command. The following is an

 

example of the output:

 

dde, version 4.0

 

User interface

manager ui_gui: GUI-Mode UI, version 4.0

 

Target manager

tgt_hpux_pa: HP-UX PA-RISC, version 4.0 DBGK 4.0

 

Object manager obj_som_som: HP SOM, version 4.0

 

Language manager lang_c: ANSI C, version 4.0

 

In the output of the preceding version command,

 

the object manager title is HP SOM. The type name is

 

obj_som_som .

Description

Brie￿y describes what the manager does and does not

 

support.

 

 

 

Syntax

Describes the syntax of debugger command argumen ts

 

such as expression , declaration, and address that vary

 

among the managers. The manager

 

option argument

 

 

 

represents options you can specify with the property

 

flags command to change the behavior of a manager.

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