HP WDB GUI 5.8 Release Notes

This document discusses the following topics:
Overview
What is New in This Release
Patches, Defects and Fixes
Known Problems in This Release
Features Supported in Previous Versions of WDB GUI
Related Documentation
Overview
The HP WDB GUI 5.8 is a graphical user interface (GUI) designed by Hewlett-Packard for the HP
Wildebeest Debugger (WDB). 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 PA-RISC
systems running HP-UX 11.0, HP-UX 11i v1, HP-UX 11i v2, or HP-UX 11i v3. HP WDB is an HP-
supported implementation of the Open Source GDB debugger developed by the Free Software
Foundation.
For the latest version of HP WDB GUI, see the HP WDB Technical Resources website at:
http://www.hp.com/go/wdb
What Is New in This Release
This section discusses the following new features that are available in this version of HP WDB GUI:
Support for Graphical display of Batch RTC Reports
Support for Graphical display of runtime heap and leaks
Support for display of Nat Values for floating point registers
Support for different display formats in Register View
Enhanced Display for Execution path
HP WDB-GUI 5.8 supports the following new features:
Support for Graphical display of Batch RTC Reports
WDB-GUI displays:
Batch RTC Reports on the basis of function names instead of block or byte
Leak / Heap / corruption reports
Data for leaks or heap in form of Pie charts
Corruption reports in Tabular form
Data which you can sort on the basis of No. of Bytes,Blocks, or callee
Support for Graphical display of runtime heap and leaks
WDB-GUI displays:
Runtime leak or heap data on the basis of function names
Data in the form of Pie charts which you can sort on the basis of No.of bytes, block or callee
Support for display of Nat Values for floating point registers
WDB-GUI displays Nat values for floating point registers (if any).
Support for different display formats in Register View