ABORT - use BOFF to examine an abort file.
Syntax:
boff Abort [abortfile] [options]*
ManiFest=filename +Symbols
Symbols=filename[,module] (+|-)Write
Examples:
boff a
boff ab +s
boff ab /oldabrt -w mf=/oldhs
Options:
- abortfile
- is the name of the abort file to be examined. If this is
not specified, BOFF will look for a temporary or
permanent file named "abrt" ("abrt"
is the default abort file name used by TSS).
- ManiFest=filename
- specifies a manifest file. For more details, see "expl boff manifest".
- Symbols=filename[,module]
- indicates that "filename" contains symbol names
and debug tables for the program whose abort file is
being examined. This file should be an hstar file or a
sequential symbol file (see "expl
boff symbols"). If the file is an hstar file
containing more than one module, you must specify the
"module" name as well.
- +Symbols
- is short for "Symbols=.h". ".h" is
the B command's default name for core image files.
- -Write
- indicates that BOFF should not access the abort file with
write permissions (i.e. read only). This prevents
accidental alteration of the abort file. Normally, BOFF
accesses the file with both read and write.
Description:
The Abort mode of BOFF is used to examine the abort file from
a program.
In most cases, it is important to specify a
"symbols" file when examining an abort file. B programs
release their tables of local and external variables as soon as
they begin execution, and therefore these symbol tables will not
be found in the abort file itself. Instead they must be obtained
from the hstar file that contained the original program. For
example, if your compiled program was in the file
"myhs" and the abort file is in "myabrt", you
would say
boff a myabrt s=myhs
to examine the abort file using BOFF.
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