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Debugger General Information

The commands are shown using a modified Backus-Naur form syntax. The metasymbols used are:

boldface strings

A boldface string is a literal such as a command or a

 

program name, and is to be typed just as it appears.

 

 

italic strings

An italic string is a Òsyntactic variableÓ and is to be

 

replaced by one of a class of items it represents.

 

 

A vertical bar separating two or more items

 

indicates that a choice is to be made; only one of the

 

items separated by this symbol should be selected.

 

 

[ ]

Square brackets enclose an item that is optional. The

 

item may appear zero or one time.

 

 

{ }

Braces enclose an optional symbol that may occur

 

zero or more times.

 

 

Syntactic Variables

The following syntactic variables are encountered in the command descriptions which follow. In addition, other syntactic variables may be used and are defined in the particular command description in which they occur.

DEL

Delimiter; either a comma or a space.

 

 

EXP

Expression (described in detail in a following section).

 

 

ADDR

Address (described in detail in a following section).

 

 

COUNT

Count; the syntax is the same as for EXP.

 

 

RANGE

A range of memory addresses which may be speciÞed

 

either by ADDR DEL ADDR or by ADDR: COUNT.

 

 

TEXT

An ASCII string of up to 255 characters, delimited at

 

each end by the single quote mark (').

 

 

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