HP WDB GUI Reference Manual (August 2006)

WDB GUI Overview
Summary of Features
Chapter 110
The Dwell feature has been enhanced to display large data.
• Enhanced Source View:
Consistent display of source files in the Source View for FORTRAN applications.
• No dwelling on Code comments:
WDB GUI is now able to distinguish Code comments and will not show the value when
dwelled on it.
• Support for WDB Pathmap functionality:
WDB GUI supports HP WDB debugger Pathmap functionality. The Pathmap ’From’ and
’To’ dialog box lets you define a list of substitution rules to be applied to path names to
identify object files and the corresponding source files. In this dialog box, you can add,
delete, and change the priority order of pathmap. You can access the Pathmap dialog box
from the Edit menu by clicking Pathmap. Alternately, you may also set the pathmap
from WDB GUI command view.
• Setting Object File Paths:
This feature allows the user to set object file paths so that WDB GUI may locate object
files for the current program. The user may enter object file paths either via WDB GUI’s
command view or via the Object File Paths Dialog box. The Object File Paths dialog box
may be accessed on the Edit menu by clicking Object File Paths.
• Support for Alternate Root Functionality:
WDB GUI supports HP WDB debugger Alternate root path functionality. The Alternate
Root Path functionality enables the user to install HP WDB debugger and its components
on an alternate root rather than the system default root. HP WDB provides an
environment variable, GDB_ROOT for this purpose. WDB GUI facilitates the setting of this
environment variable. If GDB_ROOT is not set and the environment variable WDB_ROOT is
set, WDB GUI would set GDB_ROOT to the WDB_ROOT value. If GDB_ROOT is set, the value is
left as such.
• Support for Debugging PA-RISC Applications on Itanium-based Systems:
This feature allows the user to transparently debug PA-RISC applications and core files
on Itanium-based systems in compatibility mode under Aries. When a executable is
loaded and if the debug target is a PA-RISC binary then WDB GUI automatically changes
the debugger flavor to PA-RISC version of HP WDB.
• Enhanced Array Browsing:
Allows you to view the entire contents of an expandable expression with a single click on
the expression name, in the Name field of the Local Variables /Watch views. The
expandable expression can be an array, structure, union or a class. To view the contents of