Setting Up a Debugging Session

This chapter explains how to set up a TotalView session. It also describes some of the most-used set-up commands and procedures. For information on setting up remote debugging, see Chapter 5, “Setting Up Remote Debugging Sessions”. For information on setting up parallel debugging sessions, see Chapter 6, “Setting Up MPI Debugging Sessions” and Chapter 7, “Setting Up Parallel Debugging Sessions”.

This chapter contains the following sections:

“Compiling Programs”

“Starting TotalView”

“Exiting from TotalView”

“Loading Programs”

“Attaching to Processes”

“Detaching from Processes”

“Examining Core Files”

“Viewing Process and Thread States”

“Handling Signals”

“Setting Search Paths”

“Setting Preferences”