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User Interface Managers

This chapter describ es the managers that enable the debugger to provide

 

di￿erent user interfaces. Consult this chapter for information speci￿c to the

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user interface managers, such as the value of the ui

 

type argument to the dde

 

 

 

command option -ui.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The debugger supports the graphical user interface, line-mo de user interface,

 

and SoftBench managers.

 

 

 

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

 

 

user interface manager title is GUI-Mode

UI. The type

 

 

name is ui_gui .

 

 

 

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 y ou can specify with the

 

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