****************************************************************************** ****************************************************************************** FOR INTERNAL USE ONLY Copyright (c) 1986 by Digital Equipment Corporation The information in this document is subject to change without notice and should not be construed as a commitment by Digital Equipment Corporation. Digital Equipment Corporation assumes no responsibility for any errors that may occur in this document. This specification does not describe any program or product which is currently available from Digital Equipment Corporation. Nor does Digital Equipment Corporation commit to implement this specification in any product or program. Digital Equipment Corporation makes no commitment that this document accurately describes any product it might make. ****************************************************************************** ****************************************************************************** The WATCHPOINT UTILITY is an Internal Use Only debugging tool that maintains a history of modification that are made to a particular location in shared system space. The WATCHPOINT command interpreter (WP) issues $QIO request to the WATCHPOINT driver (WPDRIVER) from commands that follow the standard rules of DCL grammar. Commands may be entered at the watchpoint> prompt to set, delete, and obtain information from watchpoints. Before invoking the WATCHPOINT command interpreter (WP), or loading the WATCHPOINT driver one must first set the SYSGEN MAXBUF dynamic parameter to 64000. This can be accomplished as follows: $ RUN SYS$SYSTEM:SYSGEN SYSGEN> SET MAXBUF 64000 SYSGEN> WRITE ACTIVE SYSGEN> WRITE CURRENT SYSGEN> EXIT Before invoking the WATCHPOINT command interpreter (WP), the WATCHPOINT driver (WPDRIVER), must first be installed with SYSMAN. This can be accomplished as follows: $ RUN SYS$SYSTEM:SYSMAN SYSMAN> IO CONNECT WPA0/DRIVER=SYS$WPDRIVER/NOADAPTER SYSMAN> EXIT The WATCHPOINT command interpreter (WP) can then be invoked with the command: $ RUN SYS$SYSTEM:WP Commands may then be entered at the watchpoint> prompt to set, delete,and obtain information from Watchpoints. Some of the WP help screens as well as the output to the WP Utility are best viewed using a terminal with a character width of 132. This can be accomplished as follows: $ SET TERM/WID=132