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Chapter 2 What Is in This Version

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Summary of Changes in HP WDB 5.0
Summary of Changes in HP WDB 4.5
Summary of Changes in Previous Versions of HP WDB
Additional Support for Command-line Calls in a Stripped Executable
Printing of Locals and Globals
Breakpoints
Backtraces
Command-line Calls
Step and Continue
Disassembly
The src-no-g Command
The --pid Command-line Option
Additional Support for Procedural Breakpoints
Support for Dumping an Array into an ASCII File
Arguments Supported for Target Programs
Support for “array slicing” for Fortran Programs
Commands to Enable and Disable Threads for DDE Compatibility
Support for Unwinding through Corrupted Program Counter
Runtime Memory Checking is Supported
Printing CFM and PFS Registers
Showing Unwind Information with the maint info unwind Command
Support for Debugging typedefs
Support for Stack Traces in Java/C/C++ Programs
Enhanced Support for C++ Templates
The dumpcore Command
The info threads Command Output Changed
Support for Assembly-level Debugging of Optimized Code
Support for Debugging MxN Threaded Programs
Support for _Complex Variables in HP C
Support for Debugging Namespaces
Support for Debugging PA-RISC Programs on Itanium-Based Systems
Minimal Support for Programs that do not Contain Debugging Information
Hardware Support Limited to Four Watchpoints
Support for Co-Variant Return Type
Support for Output Logging
New Functionality for Visual Interface for HP WDB
New Terminal-Based Interface
Additional Features in HP WDB
Referencing Instructions in a Memory Location
Debugging HP aC++ Programs Using Old Application Binary Interface
Visual Interface for HP WDB

HP WDB 5.0 is an HP-supported implementation of the GDB version 5.0 debugger. It supports source-level debugging of programs written in HP C, HP aC++, and Fortran 90 on HP-UX 11i v1.6 and later for Itanium systems, and HP-UX 11.0 and later for PA-RISC systems. This release works on programs compiled for Intel® Itanium and PA-RISC architectures.

The most recently released version of HP WDB is available at http://www.hp.com/go/wdb/.

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