Release Notes For SoftBench 6.97

Known Problems and Workarounds

Chapter 18

• An A.03.13 and a Newer aCC Option can Break the SoftBench Debugger and

DDE on HP-UX 10.20 and 11.0

The A.03.13 and the newer version of the HP aC++ compiler working with an HP linker

with a what string date of 981120 or later contains the +objdebug option. This option

instructs the compiler and linker to store debug information in the *.o object ﬁles, instead

of adding that information into the executable. This signiﬁcantly speeds up compile times.

However, the DDE debugger and SoftDebug cannot locate debug tables stored there. You

can use the +objdebug option when compiling SoftBench projects. Add the option to

Target: Modify Properties => Customize Build Configuration, (see SoftBench

online help for more information). You will not be able to use the integrated SoftBench

debugger, SoftDebug. SoftDebug will treat these programs as if they have been stripped

and will attempt to debug the program at the assembly level.

A workaround is to use WDB, HP's version of the GDB debugger to debug programs

compiled and linked with the +objdebug option. See “Compatibility Information” on

page 10 for information on how to integrate WDB with SoftBench.

• Using Static Analyzer Databases from SoftBench 5.X

If you have a Static Analyzer database, which you have generated with SoftBench 5.X,

you must regenerate the database before you can perform Static Analysis with SoftBench

6.x.

Internationalization Problems

• SoftXemacs Window “Rolls up” While Opening with Japanese SoftBench on

HP-UX 10.20 and 11.0.

On HP-UX 10.20 and HP-UX 11.0, SoftXemacs starts, but the window immediately

shrinks to a one line window instead of maintaining the original window size. To correct

this problem, you must set the following X resource before opening SoftBench:

xemacs*preeditType:Root

To set this resource, place it in your X resource ﬁle ($HOME/filename where filename is

.Xresources or .Xdefaults) and use the xrdb command.

xrdb -merge $HOME/.Xresources