Command-line arguments

The arguments typed in this area are those that you would have entered if you were starting the program from a shell. If you were directly starting your program under TotalView control, these arguments are those you would enter using the TotalView –a command-line option.

 

Figure 48: Process > Startup Parameters Dialog Box: Arguments Page

This tab is identical to the Arguments tab that TotalView displays when you select the File > New Program command.

TotalView uses them arguments whenever it starts your program. In contrast, if you need to use arguments to send information to a starter process such as mpirun or poe, enter those arguments in the Parallel tab.

You can enter arguments in two ways:

Place them on separate lines.

Separate them with blanks.

If either case, an argument must be entered on one line. TotalView will rewrap what you type, so do not be concerned with how it looks in this window.

Here are some special cases:

If an argument contains embedded blanks, enclose the argument in quotation marks (").

If an argument contains a quotation mark, precede it with a backslash.

If an argument contains a backslash character (\), precede it with a second backslash.

TotalView interprets \n as an embedded newline.

As the information in this page is just text, use standard dialog box editing commands to remove arguments you no longer need. If you delete these arguments before execution begins, TotalView does not use them.