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This document, HP WDB Release Notes, provides overview, installation, documentation, and problem information for HP WDB for Itanium-based applications.

All of the HP WDB documentation is available online in the following directory:

/opt/langtools/wdb/doc

For the latest information and updates, visit the HP WDB web page, http://www.hp.com/go/wdb/




	NOTE: All documentation other than these release notes describes the PA-RISC version of the debugger. Some features described in the documentation may not yet be available in the Itanium architecture version.

You can print the following PostScript documents, which constitute the official documentation for GDB version 5.0(on which HP WDB for Itanium-based systems is based):

Debugging with GDB, /opt/langtools/wdb/doc/gdb.ps
GDB Quick Reference, /opt/langtools/wdb/doc/refcard.ps

The PDF version of Debugging with GDB is available at /opt/langtools/wdb/doc/gdb.pdf, which you can read with the Acrobat Reader, acroread. If you do not already have acroread, it is available free from Adobe Systems Inc. (http://www.adobe.com).

In addition, all of the HP WDB documentation is available through your Web browser from /opt/langtools/wdb/doc/index.html.

In addition to the standard GDB documentation, HP provides the following HTML documents:

Getting Started with HP WDB, /opt/langtools/wdb/doc/GDBtutorial.html (if your browser does not support frames, view /opt/langtools/wdb/doc/html/wdb/C/tutmain.html)
“XDB to WDB Transition Guide”, contained in Debugging with GDB, /opt/langtools/wdb/doc/html/wdb/C/debug.html
“Using the HP WDB Terminal User Interface”, contained in Debugging with GDB, /opt/langtools/wdb/doc/html/wdb/C/debug.html
Use EMACS to view the following info files, an online version of Debugging with GDB:
/opt/langtools/wdb/doc/gdb.info* (Copy the files to your usual info directory first.)
The man page is “gdb”(1).
The man page is “wdb”(1).
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