Creating a Process by Single-Stepping

The TotalView single-stepping commands let you create a process and run it to the beginning of your program. The single-stepping commands available from the Process menu are as shown in the following table:

 

GUI command	CLI command	Creates the process and ...
Process > Step	dfocus p dstep	Runs it to the first line of the main() routine.
Process > Next	dfocus p dnext	Runs it to the first line of the main() routine; this is the same as Process > Step.
Process >    Step Instruction	dfocus p dstepi	Stops it before any of your program executes.
Process >    Next Instruction	dfocus p dnexti	Runs it to the first line of the main() routine. This is the same as Process > Step.

If a group-level or thread-level stepping command creates a process, the behavior is the same as if it were a process-level command.

Chapter 13, “Using Groups, Processes, and Threads” contains a detailed discussion of setting the focus for stepping commands.