HP WDB GUI 5.7 Reference Manual (September 2007)

WDB GUI Overview

Summary of Features

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• Enhanced Threadview :

The threadview support has been enhanced to mark the last-event thread. This feature

does the bookkeeping for the thread that was running before a ttrace event, which

stopped the process being debugged. In cases when both the current thread and last-event

thread are the same, only the current thread is ﬂagged.

• Save To File option:

The Save to File option is used to save the contents of debugger stateview to the ﬁle

speciﬁed. Right click on the debugger stateview, to save the view contents, to a ﬁle.

• Enhanced Registers View :

WDB GUI register view has been enhanced to show double precision ﬂoating-point

Single precision registers - fr7L = 26.1749401 fr7R = 0

Double precision register - fr7 = 1.5000000000000016

• Enhanced support for debugging terminal user interface based applications :

WDB GUI supports a new command-line option -tui to support debugging terminal user

interface based applications (for example vim).

• Customized display of Program Console:

WDB-GUI supports a command line option -d to customize WDB GUI Program Console

display.

• Enhanced Dwell feature to show large data:

The Dwell feature has been enhanced to display large data.

• Enhanced Source View:

Consistent display of source ﬁles in the Source View for FORTRAN applications.

• Support for WDB Pathmap functionality:

WDB GUI supports HP WDB debugger Pathmap functionality. The Pathmap ’From’ and

’To’ dialog box lets you deﬁne a list of substitution rules to be applied to path names to

identify object ﬁles and the corresponding source ﬁles. In this dialog box, you can add,

delete, and change the priority order of pathmap. You can access the Pathmap dialog box

from the Edit menu by clicking Pathmap. Alternately, you may also set the pathmap from

WDB GUI command view.

• Setting Object File Paths: