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Patches and Fixes in WDB 4.2

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This version of HP WDB includes corrections to numerous defects. These are some of the defects fixed in this version:

  • HP WDB stops with a core dump at set_demangled_name().

  • Crash on startup when debugging stripped archived executables.

  • Unable to backtrace through stripped archived executables.

  • Shared library breakpoints on non-g libraries on rerun now work properly.

  • Hang when attempting to break across execv.

  • Watchpoint change during syscall were not reported.

  • “Internal error: unknown thread..” error fixed for noticed cases.

  • HP WDB can now print a variable with the same name as a struct type. “Known Problems on Itanium” for more information.

  • Out of range enum values were being printed incorrectly.

  • Object files were picked up from the wrong location even after objectdir was specified.

  • NaN values were incorrectly identified as inf values.

  • IP offsets were printed in decimal for disassembled code and in hexadecimal elsewhere. All are now in hexadecimal.

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