DBX tool on HPUX

[Cindy_3]

Does anyone know any tools similar to DBX for HPUX 11.0. I have installed GDB, but our user claimed they need to have DBX installed in order to debug the core dump.

Please help! Thanks in advance.

[Michael Tully]

Have a look here:

http://devrsrc1.external.hp.com/devresource/Tools/wdb/doc/guide/index.html

[Angus Crome]

A note about gdb vs dbx;

You can do a lot with gdb, but if I remember correctly, there is a command line switch "-xdb" to make it behave like the originals (check the man page). The only reason your user needs to have dbx, is because they are not familiar enough with gdb. I would say this would be an ideal time for them to get their feet wet.

[Ravi_8]

Hi,

Under /opt/langttols/bin there will be dde/gdb.
you can use either of them . we normally use dde for debugging

[Cindy_3]

Thank you all for the replies. I will have the user to try it out.

[Gregory Fruth · Accepted solution]

dbx is the name of the standard debugger
on other Unix systems such as Solaris.

In the past, the standard debugger on
HP-UX was xdb (note the spelling). Perhaps
the user could use that.

At some point, HP replaced xdb with dde,
though xdb was still made available.

Later on, dde was itself replaced by wdb,
which is an HP-enhanced version of gdb.

You can poke around in /opt/langtools/bin
to see which of these you have.

Your system may also have other debuggers
such as adb (a low-level debugger), ddd
(a very nice GUI interface to gdb), and
softdebug (a graphical interface to xdb/dde;
part of HP's Softbench IDE product.)

HTH