Setting Breakpoints and Stepping through a Program
Action Points (breakpoints)
An action point is TotalView’s much more powerful version of a breakpoint. Here are the four types:
Breakpoint - stops execution of the processes or threads that reach it. Process Barrier Point - holds each process when it reaches the barrier point until all processes in the group have reached the barrier point. Primarily for MPI programs.Evaluation Point - executes a code fragment when it is reached. Enables you to set “conditional breakpoints” and perform conditional execution.Watchpoint - monitors a location in memory and either stops execution or evaluates an expression when the value stored in memory is modified.Set action points in the Process Window with a single left-click on the line number. TotalView displays a 
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View all action points in the Process Window’s Action Points tab.
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When your program halts on an action point, TotalView reports this status in various ways, including in the Root Window, the Process Window’s Source Pane, and through a yellow arrow (see above figure) on the Action Points tab.
Once you have created an action point, you can save, reload, suppress, and redefine its characteristics in a number of ways. You can set action points on all functions within a class or on a virtual function, and finely control how action points work in multi-threaded multi process programs.
How action points work | “About Action Points” in the Classic TotalView User Guide |
Setting action points | “Setting Action Points” in the Classic TotalView User Guide |
The CLI command dactions to display, save, and reload action points | dactions in the Classic TotalView Reference Guide |
The role of barrier points in multi-threaded processes | “Using Barrier Points” in the Classic TotalView User Guide |
