Providing Parallel Debugging for DASH Distributed Data Structures with GDB
Author(s) -
Denis Hünich,
Andreas Knüpfer,
José Gracia
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
procedia computer science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.334
H-Index - 76
ISSN - 1877-0509
DOI - 10.1016/j.procs.2015.05.345
Subject(s) - computer science , dash , debugger , debugging , container (type theory) , interrupt , operating system , bitmap , process (computing) , extension (predicate logic) , partitioned global address space , parallel computing , programming language , embedded system , scalability , computer graphics (images) , mechanical engineering , engineering , microcontroller
The C++ DASH template library provides distributed data container for Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS)-like programming. Because DASH is new and under development no debugger is capable to handle the parallel processes or access/modify container elements in a convenient way. This paper describes how the DASH library has to be extended to interrupt the start-up process to connect a debugger with all started processes and to enable the debugger for accessing and modifying DASH container elements. Furthermore, an GDB extension to output well formatted DASH container information is presented
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