HP WDB 5.9 Release Notes

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HP WDB 5.9 Release Notes...........................................................................................................7
Announcement.....................................................................................................................7
What Is New in This Version................................................................................................7
Debugger Support for Decimal Floating Point data type...............................................7
Print Decimal Floating point data types....................................................................7
Printing Decimal floating point constant.............................................................7
Printing Decimal floating point variable..............................................................8
Evaluate Decimal floating point data types...............................................................8
Printing Type of DFP variable..............................................................................8
Additional Support for binary floating point data type.................................................9
Support of Binary Floating Point constants – f, l :.....................................................9
Support Binary Floating Point variables with format specifier <fmt>.......................9
Automatic Preload of librtc.[sl|so].................................................................................9
Simplified Steps for RTC Using the +rtc option for the chatr command:..........10
Simplified steps for Run Time Checking in the Attach Mode.................................11
Availability of a new compiler runtime check option +check=thread..........................12
Using Batch RTC to Process the .gdbinit File................................................................12
Patches and Defect Fixes in HP WDB 5.9...........................................................................12
Notes, Cautions, and Warnings..........................................................................................13
Known Problems and Workarounds..................................................................................15
Known Issues......................................................................................................................15
Batch Mode Thread Debugging....................................................................................15
Known Limitations.............................................................................................................16
Batch Mode Thread Debugging....................................................................................16
Debugger Support for Optimized Code.......................................................................16
Installation Requirements and Compatibility Information................................................16
Compatibility.................................................................................................................17
Supported Configurations.............................................................................................17
Filesets...........................................................................................................................17
Disk Space Requirements .............................................................................................17
Installation Instructions.................................................................................................17
Features Supported in Previous Versions of HP WDB......................................................18
Related Documentation......................................................................................................18
Software Availability in Native Languages........................................................................19
WDB Mailing Lists..............................................................................................................19
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