how to get as much as possible from dbx

Question

I do TDD on a daily basis for my C++ development on Solaris10. It has greatly reduced the time I have to spend using my debugger but sometime this is the only option.

DBX is pretty powerful but not that user friendly. Note that I'm talking about console DBX not the SunStudio GUI for DBX).

What are the best productivity tips you can give for dbx C++ debugging?

PS. Changing debugger is not an option.

Answer 1

I have bookmarked a few sites related to dbx. Here they are, in no particular order in case they might be useful to you:

• Why Can't dbx Find My Function?
• Online Help for the Dbx Debugger
• Sun Studio: debugging a multi-threaded application w/ dbx
• gdb vs. dbx: commands mapping and feature comparison
• Importing debug information into dbx
• command line dbx : See more source
• Sun Studio C++ - Your .dbxrc (NB: adapt the integer type used to cast pointers according to your pointer size)
• Sun Studio: Investigating memory leaks with dbx
• Sun Studio: Gathering memory allocations/leaks data, from a running process

EDIT on 2012 july 19th: I've tried to fix several link since Chris Quenelle's blog has moved. Some articles can still be accessed thanks to the wayback machine.