HP WDB 5.9 Release Notes

NOTE: HP WDB does not support decimal floating point data type for the following:
• Command line calls of intrinsic functions (Mathematical functions such as cos, sin,
and log )
• Decimal floating point data type support for FORTRAN and c++
• HP-UX 11iv2 Integrity and HP 9000 systems
Additional Support for binary floating point data type
HP WDB 5.9 provides the following support for binary floating point data type:
• Support of Binary Floating Point constants – f, l :
• Support Binary Floating Point variables with format specifier <fmt>
Support of Binary Floating Point constants – f, l :
If the binary floating point constant contains the letter f or l then HP WDB recognizes
it as float or long double binary floating point constant. Generally a floating point
constant without f or lis considered as double binary floating point constant.
Example 1 Binary Floating point constant
(gdb) p <num><f/l>
This prints the binary floating point constant based on its data type.
Support Binary Floating Point variables with format specifier <fmt>
HP WDB 5.9 prints the variable in the specified binary floating point format. The
following are the new format specifiers for binary floating point variables:
(gdb) p/f <var-name>
This prints the binary floating point value as float.
(gdb) p/db <var-name>
This prints the binary floating point value as double.
(gdb) p/l <var-name>
This prints the binary floating point value as long double.
Automatic Preload of librtc.[sl|so]
The new +rtc option for the chatr command enables you to automatically preload
the librtc.[sl|so] runtime library. In addition to automatically preloading the
librtc.[sl|so] library, it also maps the shared library as private. This enhancement
simplifies the current method of explicitly preloading the appropriate librtc.[sl|so]
library using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
What Is New in This Version 9