Creating a Process Without Starting It

Totalview® User Guide : PART II Debugging Tools and Tasks : Chapter 14 Manipulating Processes and Threads : Creating a Process Without Starting It

The Process > Create command creates a process and stops it before the first statement in your program executes. If you link a program with shared libraries, TotalView allows the dynamic loader to map into these libraries. Creating a process without starting it is useful when you need to do the following:

• Create watchpoints or change the values of global variables after a process is created, but before it runs.

• Debug C++ static constructor code.


CLI: dstepi While there is no CLI equivalent to the Process > Create command, executing the dstepi command produces the same effect.