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The HP Distributed Debugging Environment (also referred to as "the debugger" or "HP/DDE") is a high-level language debugger for the HP-UX operating system. The debugger operates on object files generated by HP compilers and the HP assembler.

The debugger provides a powerful graphical user interface based on OSF/Motif. For users without access to OSF/Motif, the debugger also provides a line-mode user interface.

The debugger supports both expert and novice users with an easy-to-use debugging environment that you can customize to fit your application.

This chapter gives a brief introduction to the debugger's graphical user interface and to the debugger's extensive online help.

NOTE: HP/DDE is also the default SoftBench Program Debugger. The SoftBench version of HP/DDE has a graphical user interface that differs somewhat from the interface presented in this manual. However, the debugger commands are the same.

The SoftBench Program Debugger runs on both HP-UX and Solaris systems.