HP (Hewlett-Packard) 5992-4701 Computer Hardware User Manual


 
Serial debugging of a parent and child process.
Support for Parallel Processing limited to pthread parallelism, but not the compiler
generated parallelism, for example, with directives.
Implementation of ask mode for set follow-fork-mode.
Support for setting breakpoints using shared library name.
Support for core file commands packcore, unpackcore, getcore, dumpcore
and info rtti address.
On PA-RISC systems, sanity check for core files dumped by hardware generated
signals can be performed. HP WDB can detect and warn the user about certain
cases of corrupted core files.
Inline support is on by default on Integrity systems. On PA-RISC, the inline support
is still off by default.
For PA 64-bit applications, WDB can step into shared library bind-on-reference
calls. This support is available for PA 32-bit as well.
Interception of synchronous signals used by sigwait(), sigwaitinfo() and
sigtimedwait() functions. These signals are displayed by WDB just like
asynchronous signals but are always passed to the debugger whether [nopass]
is set or not.
Support for debugging hardware watchpoints and shared libraries.
For PA 64-bit applications, WDB can step into shared library bind-on-reference
calls. This support is available for PA 32-bit as well.
Implementation of -mapshared option to suppress mapping all the shared libraries
in a process private.
Support for deferred breakpoints on dlopened and shl_loaded libraries with
stripped main program.
Additional support for procedural breakpoints.
C99 variable arrays implemented on Integrity systems. This support is available
on PA-RISC as well.
The show envvars command can be used to print information on environment
variables supported by WDB.
Support for handling __fpreg data type.
Support for making changes to the program when debugging without having to
re- compile or re-link it.
Hardware breakpoints on Integrity systems.
Support for debugging PA-RISC Applications on Integrity systems.
Unwinding Java stack frames on Integrity systems. The 64-bit version of gdb can
unwind through Java stack frames using the shared library in the Java product.
The 64-bit library is part of the JDK 1.4.2.10 and JDK 1.5.0.03 products.
Enhanced nexti and stepi commands. The WDB nexti and stepi commands,
prints the assembly instruction along with the next source line.
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