DBX is a source-level debugger, product of Oracle Coporation (formally Sun Microsystem) used to control the execution of a program (step by step, breakpoints, ...) and inspect the content of the memory.
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Why sometimes I get an "Invalid transaction object" exception?
Is there something wrong with this code?
Sometimes I get an unhandled "Invalid transaction object" exception in it:
procedure BlaBla;
var
TD: TDBXTransaction;
begin
TD := SQLConnection.BeginTransaction;
try
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python 3.5.2 Dropbox module 'dropbox' has no attribute 'Dropbox'
Hi I am kind of new to coding, I would like to make a small program that will upload my file to dropbox. I use python 3.5.2 and pycharm.
I followed the tutorial online.
1. pip install dropbox
2. copy and paste the link
3. execute
4. I got the…

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How to access (assign/print) values to namespace variables in solaris dbx debugger
I am trying to assign a value using the solaris dbx debugger to a variable inside a names space. However, the debugger is saying that the variable doesn't exist within the namesspace. Using Sun studio 12.3 on solaris 10.
After putting some stops…

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How to set break points on all destructors in AIX? (c++)
I have found that rbreak in gdb can do this by a regular expression.
Is there an alternative way in aix dbx?
I have read the document of IBM.
It seems that dbx cannot do this.

蔡敏健
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A dbx warning creating issue while following fork in dbx
I am getting some issues while following child process in dbx in a huge legacy C code. I am presenting below the code part under investigation:
#include
#include
#include
int main()
{
if(fork()) exit(0);
return…

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dbx: warning: stepping up to a function with srcline info
I am getting some issues while following child process in dbx in a huge legacy C code. I am presenting below the code part under investigation:
#include
#include
#include
int main()
{
if(fork()) exit(0);
return…

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TraceCallBackEvent usage for detecting idle SQL connections
Using Delphi 2006; My aim is to check wether a TSQLConnection instance is idle or not. Therefore, i am setting a Datetime "m_dLastActivity" to "now" each time activity is seen.
As TSQLMonitor is buggy in its trace handling and causes memory problems…

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process identification
Let's say i have 15 processes/daemons running in the background.
let's say one of the process has dumped the core.
how could i identify which process has dumped the core.
i am using hpux!

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Using SunStudio dbxtool on Red Hat Linux.
Using sunstudio12.1 dbxtool on Red Hat Linux. I am able to use dbx command line interface from sunstudio12.1/bin directory to debug a Linux executable.
However when I try to use sunstudio12.1/bin/dbxtool I get "wrong architecture" dbx and dbxtool…

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DBX Output Different When Using "." or "->"
There's a function that's not working and I don't understand why, and DBX isn't helping. Below is what I'm talking about.
(dbx 12) print ((CCFundExpenseObject *)s1)->GetFundBranchGroup()
((class CCFundExpenseObject *) s1)->GetFundBranchGroup() =…

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why do we need to pass the program path along with the core file to debugger?
Is it relevant that the program is exactly the same build as the one which crashed to generate the core file?
dbx

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DBX core dump on sparc64 and stack trace in/out registers
Suppose I have these functions
void foo(int a, int b, int c);
void bar(int d);
void start();
And I get a core dump which looks something like this
foo(, , , )
bar(,

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Compiling static template functions on AIX 7.1 xlc++
Our source code has a bunch of standalone static template functions. I need to compile it on AIX 7.1 Power 7 system with IBM's native xlc++ compiler. Using static keyword with standalone functions is obsoleted practice and it's not supported by…

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dbx: internal warning writable memory segment of size 0
While trying to load a core file using dbx I get the following warning:
dbx: internal warning: writable memory segment 0xfa8b0000[16384] of size 0 in core
There doesn't seem to be an explanation in:
(dbx) help core
What does this message mean?…

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DBX error in Delphi XE3, when connecting to a SQL Server database
When I try to connect to a MS SQL Server database using DBX an error pops up saying that the driver is not properly installed, or missing. I tried with ADO driver and it worked like charm, but the thing is that I need DBX driver to work because I…

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