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• Support for persistent display of expressions across re-runs. The user does not need to
re-initiate the display settings for every run.
• Viewing wide character and wide-character strings of type wchar_t using the type
print command.
• Support for debugging of executables with method and expressions involving covariant
return typ e s
• Support for commands, catch throw, catch catch, and info catch, for debugging
exception handlers in C++ on Integrity systems, with the aCC compiler A.06.00 and
later.
• Support for the steplast command for C and C++. However, steplast command is
not supported.
• Support for dumping an array into an ASCII file.
• Support for the Fortran array slices.
• Source level debugging of Fortran applications that contain nested routines.
• Support for making command line calls in a stripped executable.
• Support for a terminal user interface that provides view of source while debugging at
the WDB command line.
• Support for debugging 32-bit and 64-bit PA-RISC programs as well as 64-bit Itanium
programs .
• Support for assembly-level debugging.
• Support for a subset of xdb commands, enabled with -xdb mode.
• Support for Java/C/aCC++ stack unwinding with Java SDK version 1.3.1.02 or later
for HP-UX.
• Visual Interface for HP WDB -tui mode supports output logging
• Command line calls for 64-bit PA-RISC applications that are not linked with end.o.
• Command watch_target.
• Command line option set display-full-path that displays the full pathname of the
source file name while printing the frame information.
• Command line option set dereference [on |off] when off, WDB does not derefer-
ence char * variables by default.
• Support for show macro, and macro expand to view, and expand macro expressions.
• Support for evaluating macros.
• Support for printing the execution path entries in the current frame, or thread.
Note: For new commands see HP WDB Release Notes available at
http://www.hp.com/go/wdb.