HP WDB GUI 5.7 Reference Manual (September 2007)

WDB GUI Overview
Summary of Features
Chapter 112
WDB-GUI window can be minimized and maximized Control + Shift + < and
Control + Shift + >.
• Support for shared library status
This feature lists all the libraries loaded by a program that is being debugged.
• Support for display of current program information
• Improved browser selection screen for viewing HP WDB GUI Online Help
The browser preferences screen has been modified. The user can select either Netscape or
Mozilla as the browser for viewing the HP WDB GUI Online Help. Toggle buttons have
been placed on the browser selection screen for the two browsers supported. If the default
browser (in this case Netscape) is not installed on the machine, then the user is prompted
to select an alternative browser on the browser selection screen.
• Changed registers displayed in red
The register view of the HP WDB GUI, is updated everytime the debugged program stops
due to some event.
• Support for viewing array contents added to HP WDB GUI
The user can view the values for part of an array by defining the limits. The array
contents are displayed for specific limits only. However, by default the entire array is
displayed.
• Support for specifying printing format in Watchview
The values of the variables displayed in Watchview can be viewed in octal, hexadecimal,
and decimal format.
• Watch Points are supported through WDB GUI
The user has to specify variable name and an appropriate value to define a watch point.
The user can enter these values from the quickwatch screen of WDB GUI.
• Support for the -mapshared option:
WDB GUI supports the -mapshared functionality. This option suppresses the mapping of
all shared libraries in a process private. The -mapshared option can be given as a
command-line option while invoking WDB GUI as:
$ wdb -mapshared
or in the gdb command prompt as:
(gdb) set mapshared on
To allow shared libraries to be loaded after the current point to be mapped private: