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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DBX: Unable to get conditional breakpoint to work
I could not get:
stop at "": if (strncmp(..., "", ) = 0)
to work while debugging a program in DBX (on an AIX machine).
It…

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Getting Last Day of Month (2 Months Ago) in ODBC
I'm trying to get the last day of 2 months ago on an ODBC server but can't seem to get it quite right as the EOMONTH built-in function of SSMS is not functional in ODBC.
The part of the code that I currently have in my WHERE clause returns the 1st…

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Access violation at address 04FD6CC2 in module 'dbxora.dll'. Read of address 00000004
I have created DELPHI database application which will use DBX TSQLConnection component to connect to Oracle database (19c version).
I'm getting access violation error , When i call oracle listagg function (SQLQuery1.open --in this line).
When i…

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Value of class variable mysteriously changing
I have an Elf class which reads in Elf headers and constructs various data structures; I am using mmap and mmap the file to a variable maddr in the above class. A pointer to this class is passed to a DwarfSymTab class (which relies on a Dwarf class…

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What does '.() at 0xdeadbeef' mean in a (core file) stacktrace generated by dbx on AIX?
I'm running some tests on AIX, and I'm getting a bunch of crashes similar to the following:
build 25-May-2019 18:40:46 Segmentation fault in ThreadSafeSharedObject_cpp::ChangeRefCount(unsigned int&,int) at line 21 in file "" ($t8)
build …

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debugging with dbx an checking memory leaks with rtcaudit.so
i saw this page and found that we can check memory leaks of a program using dbx.
i never practically did it but it seems a good toll for checking the memory leaks.
i used to work on HPUX and IBM AIX UNIX OS's,where there is no GUI and always used…

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Is there a way to associate an action on a trace event in dbx
Here is what I'm trying to acheive :
For every malloc call in my application, I want to dump out the stack trace (to find out who is making malloc calls) and I need to track this over a period of time.
I know that we can use trace command in dbx,…

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What do the numbers mean in a disassembled CALL instruction on SPARC?
Analysing a core dump using mdb and dbx debuggers under SPARC Solaris.
mdb dis DCMD shows:
>fn_name+0x1cc::dis
lib.so`fn_name+0x1cc: call +0xa92fc <0xfafbc36c>
dbx dis command for the same address and the core file shows:
(dbx) dis…

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In DBX i am not able to step into a particular function?
In dbx i have a put a break on a particular function using stop.Like stop function. But it is not stopping there instead when i try to step in using step command I get this error
after line 17745: (noname) = @0xf1deaa3c
What could be the…

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How to show a tree structure database in Splunk?
How to display a tree structure database table/collection(any database) in Splunk.
For example: If we have Parent that has ChildA and ChildB. Further ChildA has ChildA1, ChildA2 and ChildA3. ChildB has ChildB1 and ChildB2.
When I choose Parent, it…

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dbx, solaris: selectively enable/disable shared libraries to instrument for memory access check?
(dbx) check -access
Turns on access checking an instruments at load time all shared libraries that the application uses.
Is there a way to selectively indicate which libraries should/not be instrumented?
I have a large application which uses a lot…

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Segmentation fault in AIX for null value of argv
On AIX 6.1, I have a piece of code where the argv is getting set to NULL somehow after a call to strdup. The exact same code was working on Linux, HPUX and Solaris.
Here's the excerpt from production code where I am getting core dump:
Makefile …

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How to show/modify the source directories dbx searches?
dbx keeps complaining it can't find the source code. How can i show/modify the source code directories dbx searches when looking for source file?

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How do I print the full value of a long string in dbx?
I want to print the full length of a C-string in dbx. How do I force dbx to print the whole string?
if its a long string it gives following msg:
(dbx) p svalue
expression too large to evaluate
(dbx)

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Shared object load in AIX?
I have a C program hello.c. I created a shared object hello.so.
hello.c and hello.so are in directory /u/grv/program/hello.c /u/grv/objects/hello.so respectively
LIBPATH is set to /u/grv/objects:$LIBPATH
when i use dbx to debug the code..dbx asks me…

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