UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Can anyone tell the commands we use for debugging a programm in dbx with explanation for each?

Iam totally new to unix environment

(dbx) help
Command syntax: "help <keyword>", <keyword> is one of the following list:

most_used, quit, alias, record, playback, history, lineedit, run,
rerun, stop, step, next, trace, delete, catch, ignore,
cont, return, when, goto, print, printx, printo, printd,
printf, printregs, where, status, whatis, which, whereis, assign,
tag, up, down, func, dump, display, list, search,
edit, file, use, set, setenv, sh, stopi, conti,
stepi, nexti, tracei, listobj, enable, disable, kernel, tlist,
tset, tstack, call, attach, detach, plist, switch, variable,
register, builtin, expression

Thanks Raom

if you have the GCC,G++ debugger, which you probably do... you can take your source code text (made or copied in one of the text editors) and assign it the extension you want.. say its EXAMPLE.cpp , to debug just type in the shell command line

gcc -lg++ -Wall -pedantic -ansi -g -o EXOUT EXAMPLE.cpp

this takes and debuggs EXAMPLE.cpp, and hassle-free outputs the compiled program named EXOUT (this can be named whatever you want btw).
the -lg++ is just to tell the debugger to look in the default location for #include header files.. and then -Wall is the actual debugger part. the -o is for a simple output, instead of the a.out aproach.

Pe@cE ... this also works for plain cc instead of gcc