HP WDB 5.
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Table of Contents HP WDB 5.8 Release Notes.............................................................................................7 Announcement.......................................................................................................................................7 What Is New in This Version..................................................................................................................7 Supports Batch mode of thread debugging............................................
List of Tables 1 2 3 Dependent Library Routines for Run Time Checking using WDB................................................9 HP WDB Installation.....................................................................................................................12 HP WDB Documentation..............................................................................................................
HP WDB 5.8 Release Notes Announcement HP Wildebeest Debugger (WDB) 5.8 is an HP-supported implementation of the open source debugger GDB. It supports source-level debugging of programs written in HP C, HP aC++, and Fortran 90 on Itanium®-based systems running HP-UX 11i v2 or HP-UX 11i v3, and HP 9000 systems running HP-UX 11i v1, HP-UX 11i v2, or HP-UX 11i v3. This document discusses the most recent product information for HP WDB 5.
info corruption Lists the potential in-block corruptions in all the freed blocks. The following are the new commands related to detection of memory corruption: 1. The following command enables you to detect the dangling pointers and blocks. info dangling Displays a list of all the dangling pointers and dangling blocks that are potential sources of memory corruption ( may have false positives) 2. The following are the commands that enable you to change the guard byte size.
• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • GDB does not print the type of nested template class. WDB register tab does not display several registers that have a value of NaT. WDB does not show NaT in FP register during core dump analysis. Applications with custom allocator crashes when set heap-check on GDB displays error on printing floating point registers. GDB is unable to print formal and local variables for C++ applications that are heavy with inline functions.
Table 1 Dependent Library Routines for Run Time Checking using WDB (continued) strdup strlen strchr strtok_r time unlink uwx_self_copyin strchr uwx_step uwx_init perror shmctl write strcmp shl_get close dlgetname environ fork getpagesize uwx_self_init_context pthread_getschedparam uwx_self_init_info strstr uwx_register_alloc_cb uwx_register_callbacks uwx_self_lookupip The Run Time Checking (dynamic memory, libraries, and pthreads checking) in WDB is dependent on the semantics and the
is generated when the process stops at a system call, and the registers cannot be read by the debugger. When the debugger calls the routine ttrace, it returns this warning. • Error attaching WDB to a process that is traced by tools using ttrace HP WDB cannot attach to a process that is traced by tools that use ttrace, such as Caliper, adb, and tusc. The debugger displays the following error message while attempting to attach to such a process: Attaching to process failed.
Table 2 HP WDB Installation Product Name Description HP WDB HP WDB — The HP implementation of the open source debugger GDB HP WDB GUI Optional graphical user interface component for HP WDB If you install HP WDB GUI on a system where HP WDB has not yet been installed, HP WDB is installed automatically. Compatibility HP WDB is not supported on releases of the HP-UX operating system prior to 11i v1.
For more information on installation procedures and related issues, see the Managing HP-UX Software with SD-UX and other README, installation, and upgrade documentation provided with the HP-UX 11.x operating system package. NOTE: If you install a compiler product that includes a version of HP WDB earlier than this version, swinstall generates the following message: ERROR: A later revision (one with a higher revision number) of fileset "WDB-GUI.WDB-GUI-HELP,r=B.11.31" has already been installed.
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