HP WDB 5.9 Release Notes

Announcement

HP Wildebeest Debugger (WDB) 5.9 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 5.9

For the latest version of HP WDB, see the HP WDB Technical Resources website at:

http://www.hp.com/go/wdb

What Is New in This Version

This section describes the new features that are introduced in this version of HP WDB.

• Debugger Support for Decimal Floating Point data type

• Additional Support for binary floating point data type

• Automatic Preload of librtc.[sl|so] with new +rtc option for chatr

command

• Availability of a new compiler runtime check option +check=thread

• Batch RTC now enables processing of the .gdbinit file

Debugger Support for Decimal Floating Point data type

HP WDB 5.9 enables you to print and evaluate decimal floating point data types for

programs running on the September 2008 release of HP-UX 11iv3, Integrity systems.

This feature is available only for compiler versions A.06.20 and later.

The various features supported for decimal floating point data types are as follows:

• Print Decimal Floating point data types

• Evaluate Decimal floating point data types

Print Decimal Floating point data types

HP WDB 5.9 enables you to print a decimal floating point data type constant or variable.

It handles and prints decimal floating point constant or variable when you use common

GDB commands such as stack trace and commands line calls.

Printing Decimal floating point constant

(gdb) print <num> <df/dd/dl/DF/DD/DL>

df, DF - _Decimal32

dd, DD - _Decimal64

dl, DL - _Decimal128

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