HP WDB 5.5 Release Notes

Introduction
Patches, Defects, and Fixes
Chapter 1
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• New commands info heap process and info heap arena
The following new commands are supported:
— info heap process: This command enables the user to view a high level memory usage report of a process.
— info heap arena: This command enables the user to view high level memory usage details of each arena.
Limitation
— The info heap arena command is not supported in batch mode.
— The info heap process and info heap arena are available on HP-UX 11i version 3.
• New command line options
— min-heap-size
The min-heap size option, sets the minimum block size to use, for heap reporting.
Example:
set heap-check min-heap-size 100
When the option min-heap-size is set to 100 info heap command only reports, blocks of size larger than or equal to
100 bytes.
— set display-full-path
The option set display-full-path when set on, displays the full pathname of the source file name while printing the
frame info.
— set dereference [on|off]
The option set dereference [on |off] when off, GDB does not dereference char * variables by default.
Limitation:
This feature does not work in batch mode.
Patches, Defects, and Fixes
This chapter describes the defects fixed in this version of HP WDB.
• On stepping out of a constructor, GDB displays the following error message: Error accessing memory and exits.
• When debugging the compiler, a data member can be accessed at one point but not at a later point.
• HP-UX extension signals not implemented.
• Casting to function pointer type fails in GDB.
• Wrong source file and line number displayed in backtraces.
• Implemented longjmp debugging on PA-RISC and Integrity systems.
• Unable to call base class function on a derived class object.
• GDB should print the actual path of the source file that was picked-up using the dir command when printing the frame
information.
• Incorrect breakpoint location for assembly language functions.