HP WDB GUI 5.8 Reference Manual ( February 2008 )

WDB GUI Overview
Summary of Features
Chapter 112
• Support for Viewing the Execution Path Entries
HP WDB GUI 5.7 and later versions provide support to view the execution path for
programs running on Integrity systems. This feature is supported only for compiler
versions A.06.15 and later.
• Support for viewing information on the state of pthread primitives
HP WDB GUI 5.6 and later, provide support to view extended information on the state of
threads, mutexes, read-write locks, and condition variables.
• Support for heap check string on/off
WDB GUI supports the heap-check string on/off feature of GDB. If the check string flag is
set to on, it enables the validation of calls to functions such as strcpy, strncpy, memcpy,
memncpy, memmove, memset, bzero, and, bcopy.
• Support for display of memory layout for a given address
WDB-GUI displays memory contents for a given address, spanning across 2 kB of
memory. This option is available from the View menu. The contents can be viewed in
decimal, hexadecimal, octal, unsigned decimal, binary, float, address, instruction,
character and, string format. For a given display format, the contents can be viewed in
byte, halfword and word sizes.
• Support for display of a short description for an assembly instruction
WDB-GUI displays a brief description of the assembly instruction when the mouse
pointer is moved over an assembly instruction in the Disassembly view.
• Special key strokes for minimizing and maximizing WDB GUI windows
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