Contents

1 -- TotalView Command Line Interface

What Is the CLI
Document Contents
Conventions
Reporting Problems

2 -- A Few CLI/Tcl Macros

Setting the EXECUTABLE_PATH State Variable
Initializing an Array Slice
Printing an Array Slice
Writing an Array Variable to a File
Setting Breakpoints

3 -- Groups, Processes, and Threads

A Couple of Processes
Some Threads
Even More Complicated Programming Models
More on Threads
Types of User Threads
Organizing Chaos
Creating Groups
Simplifying What You're Debugging
Setting Process and Thread Focus
Process/Thread Sets
Arenas
GOI, POI, and TOI
Specifying Processes and Threads
The Thread of Interest
Process and Thread Widths
Examples
Setting Group Focus
Specifying Groups in P/T Sets
Specifier Combinations
All Does Not Always Mean All
Setting Groups
An Extended Example
Incomplete Arena Specifiers
Lists with Inconsistent Widths
Stepping
Thread
Process
Group
Using duntil
How do I ...
"Piling Up" vs. "Running Through"
P/T Set Expressions

4 -- Using the CLI

How a Debugger Operates
Tcl and the CLI
The CLI and TotalView
The CLI Interface
Starting the CLI
Initializing the Debugger
Start-up Example
Starting Your Program
CLI Output
"more" Processing
Command Arguments
Symbols
Namespaces
Symbol Names and Scope
Qualifying Symbol Names
Command and Prompt Formats
Built-In Aliases and Group Aliases
Effects of Parallelism on TotalView and CLI Behavior
Kinds of IDs
Controlling Program Execution
Advancing Program Execution
Action Points

5 -- Type Transformations

Type Transformation Defined
Creating Type Transformations
Using Type Transformation
Defining Prototypes
Objects Used in Type Transformation
Creating a struct Type Transformation
Validating the Type: the list_validate Procedure
Redefining the Type: list_type Procedure
Creating the Prototype
Making a Callback for a Structure Element
Applying Prototypes to Images
Initializing TotalView After Loading an Image
An Array-Like Example
Indicating if a Type Is Mapped: The vector_validate Callback
Returning the Type: The vector_type Callback
Returning the Rank: The vector_rank Callback
Returning the Bounds: The vector_bounds Callback
Returning the Address: The vector_address Callback
The typedef Callback
Utility Procedures
The read_store Utility Procedure
The ultimate_base Utility Procedure
The extract_offset Utility Procedure
Creating the Prototype
Distributed Arrays
Visualizing a Distributed Array with Node Information
The Type Transformation for mandel.c
Validating the Data Type: The da_validate Function
The da_distribution Callback Procedure
The Distributed Addressing Callback
Addressing Expressions
Debugging Tcl Callback Code

6 -- CLI Commands

actionpoint
alias
capture
dactions
dassign
dattach
dbarrier
dbreak
dcheckpoint
dcont
ddelete
ddetach
ddisable
ddown
dec2hex
denable
dfocus
dgo
dgroups
dhalt
dhold
dkill
dlappend
dlist
dload
dnext
dnexti
dout
dprint
dptsets
drerun
drestart
drun
dset
dstatus
dstep
dstepi
dunhold
dunset
duntil
dup
dwait
dwatch
dwhat
dwhere
dworker
errorCodes
exit
focus_groups
focus_processes
focus_threads
group
help
hex2dec
image
process
prototype
quit
respond
stty
source_process_startup
thread
type
unalias

A CLI Command Summary

B CLI Command Default Arena Widths

C Distributed Array Type Mapping

The cyclic_array.tcl Type Mapping File

Glossary

Citations
 
 
 
 
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