Debugging with GDB Manual The GNU Source-Level Debugger (769148-001, March 2014)

3. Set the following environment variables as follows:

export BATCH_RTC=on

4. Complete one of the following steps:

◦ Use the +rtc option for the chatr command on each of the required executable

files that must be instrumented, as follows:

$ chatr +rtc enable exec1 exec2 exec3

◦ Preload the librtc library as follows:

export LD_PRELOAD /opt/langtools/lib/hpux32/librtc.so

5. Run the program as follows:

./exec1

Suppose exec1 eventually spawns exec2, exec3, exec4, exec5, only exec1, exec2,

exec3 will be instrumented based on the settings in the rtcconfig file.

Debugging Memory Interactively After Attaching to a Running Process

HP WDB accepts -pid or -p followed by a process ID to attach a running process to the debugger.

To use Batch RTC after attaching GDB to a running process, complete the following steps:

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