Many of you are sophisticated programmers with knowledge of programming and its methodologies, and almost all of you have used other debuggers and have developed your own techniques for debugging the programs that you write.
We know you are an expert in your area, whether it be threading, high-performance computing, or client/server interactions. So, rather than telling you about what you’re doing, this book tells you about TotalView.
TotalView is a rather easy-to-use product. Nonetheless, we can’t tell you how to use TotalView to solve your problems because your programs are unique and complex, and we can’t anticipate what you want to do. So, what you’ll find in this book is a discussion of the kinds of operations you can perform. This book, however, is not just a description of dialog boxes and what you should click on or type. Instead, it tells you how to control your program, see a variable’s value, and perform other debugging actions.
Detailed information about dialog boxes and their data fields is in the context-sensitive Help available directly from the GUI. In addition, an HTML version of this information is shipped with the documentation and is available on our Web site. If you have purchased TotalView, you can also post this HTML documentation on your intranet.