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From: RSD1901@TAMSIGMA.BITNET (Shane Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Debugger with ANALYZE/PROCESS and detached processes
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Date: 8 Jan 88 19:08:00 GMT
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I'm working on a program in VAX C which will be run as a detached process.
Right now it's running as a subprocess, but regardless it is started with
the /DUMP qualifier, which causes a process dump to be created if an exception
occurs which causes abnormal image exit. I can use ANALYZE/PROCESS_DUMP to
find out what exception occurred, but no symbols or source is available when
the debugger is invoked. I cannot LINK the object module with /DEBUG because
then the image cannot be run detached.

Is there any way to allow access to the symbols from the debugger in this
case? I was thinking about LINKing it with /SYMBOL_TABLE, but I cannot find
a command in DEBUG which allows one to specify a symbol table to be used
with the image. I cannot run the image interactively because it requires
an AST via mailbox and then it must perform $GETJPI's on the sender of the AST,
and I am not allowed multiple interactive logins and do not have WORLD
privilege to do GETJPI on any other process.

Any ideas on alternative methods of debugging will also be appreciated.

--Shane Davis
  Texas A&M Univ. XPrint programmer

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