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Chapter 1. Tools and Utilities

Chapter 2. The Curses Library

Chapter 3. Debugging Programs

adb Debug Program Overview

Getting Started with the adb Debug Program

Controlling Program Execution

Using adb Expressions

Customizing the adb Debug Program

Computing Numbers and Displaying Text

Displaying and Manipulating the Source File with the adb Program

adb Debug Program Reference Information

Example adb Program: adbsamp

Example adb Program: adbsamp2

Example adb Program: adbsamp3

Example of Directory and i-node Dumps in adb Debugging

Example of Data Formatting in adb Debugging

Example of Tracing Multiple Functions in adb Debugging

dbx Symbolic Debug Program Overview

Using the dbx Debug Program

Displaying and Manipulating the Source File with the dbx debug Program

Examining Program Data

Debugging at the Machine Level with dbx

Customizing the dbx Debugging Environment

List of dbx Subcommands

Chapter 4. Error Notification

Chapter 5. File Systems and Directories

Chapter 6. Floating-Point Exceptions

Chapter 7. Input and Output Handling

Chapter 8. Large Program Support

Chapter 9. Parallel Programming

Chapter 10. Programming on Multiprocessor Systems

Chapter 11. Threads Programming Guidelines

Chapter 12. lex and yacc Program Information

Chapter 13. Logical Volume Programming

Chapter 14. make Command

Chapter 15. m4 Macro Processor Overview

Chapter 16. National Language Support

Chapter 17. Object Data Manager (ODM)

Chapter 18. sed Program Information

Chapter 19. Shared Libraries, Shared Memory, and The malloc Subsystem

Chapter 20. Packaging Software for Installation

Chapter 21. Documentation Library Service

Chapter 22. Software Vital Product Data (SWVPD)

Chapter 23. Source Code Control System (SCCS)

Chapter 24. Subroutines, Example Programs, and Libraries

Chapter 25. System Management Interface Tool (SMIT)

Chapter 26. System Resource Controller

Chapter 27. Trace Facility

Chapter 28. tty Subsystem

Chapter 29. High-Resolution Time Measurements Using POWER-based Time Base or POWER family Real-Time Clock

Chapter 30. Loader Domains

Chapter 31. Power Management-Aware Application Program

Chapter 32. ELF Object Files and Dynamic Linking

Appendix A. Character Maps

Appendix B. Notices

Index