HP WDB GUI Reference Manual (August 2006)

WDB GUI Overview

Summary of Features

Chapter 1 9

• Watch Points are supported through WDB GUI

The user has to specify variable name and an appropriate value to deﬁne a watch point.

The user can enter these values from the quickwatch screen of WDB GUI.

• Support for the -mapshared option:

WDB GUI supports the -mapshared functionality. This option suppresses the mapping of

all shared libraries in a process private. The -mapshared option can be given as a

command-line option while invoking WDB GUI as:

$ wdb -mapshared

or in the gdb command prompt as:

(gdb) set mapshared on

To allow shared libraries to be loaded after the current point to be mapped private:

(gdb) set mapshared off

• Enhanced Threadview :

The threadview support has been enhanced to mark the last-event thread. This feature

does the bookkeeping for the thread that was running before a ttrace event, which

stopped the process being debugged. In cases when both the current thread and last-event

thread are the same, only the current thread is ﬂagged.

• Save To File option:

The Save to File option is used to save the contents of debugger stateview to the ﬁle

speciﬁed. Right click on the debugger stateview, to save the view contents, to a ﬁle.

• Enhanced Registers View :

WDB GUI register view has been enhanced to show double precision ﬂoating-point

Single precision registers - fr7L = 26.1749401 fr7R = 0

Double precision register - fr7 = 1.5000000000000016

• Enhanced support for debugging terminal user interface based applications :

WDB GUI supports a new command-line option -tui to support debugging terminal user

interface based applications (for example vim).

• Customized display of Program Console:

• WDB-GUI supports a command line option -d to customize WDB GUI Program Console

display.

• Enhanced Dwell feature to show large data: