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List:       hpux-cxx-dev
Subject:    CXX-DEV: WDB version 5.0 released
From:       Carl Burch <cdb () cup ! hp ! com>
Date:       2004-10-07 22:38:46
Message-ID: 200410072238.PAA11284 () adlwrk03 ! cup ! hp ! com
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   My apologies for the double-post - both C++ and C/Fortran programmers
need to debug.


			****     WDB 5.0      ****

The HP Wildebeest Debugger Team has just released WDB 5.0, the latest update
to the HP-UX debugger.  The new version is available for HP-UX (Itanium)
versions 11.22 and 11.23, and HP-UX (PA-RISC) versions 11.00, 11.11, and
11.23.  It can be downloaded from http://www.hp.com/go/wdb.

With the release of WDB 5.0, the HP debugger team would like your help in
planning features for upcoming releases of the tool.  If there are features
or extensions that you have found missing or annoying in WDB, or specific
defects that you have run into while using the debugger, we would appreciate
hearing from you.  Please forward any feedback or comments to
wdb-help@cup.hp.com.


----------------------------
What Is New in This Version?
----------------------------

HP WDB 5.0 supports the following new features on all HP-UX systems:

* Support for template breakpoints:  With GDB 5.0, you can set breakpoints
  on member functions in all instantiations of the C++ template class by
  just specifying the template name with member function name.

* Support for debugging of executables with methods and expressions
  involving covariant return types:  Users can step into, step out of, and
  step over such methods transparently without encountering covariant return
  adjusting thunks.  This feature is supported in all HP aC++ compilers on
  HP-UX systems, but not in g++ on HP-UX or LRE.

* Support for FORTRAN nested routines:  GDB 5.0 supports source-level
  debugging of FORTRAN applications that contain nested routines.  GDB will
  be able to set breakpoint, step-in, step-next, step-out of the nested
  routines and access the nested routines local variables.


HP WDB 5.0 supports the following new features on Itanium-based systems:

* Full support for the aCC6 compiler.

* Support for the 'catch throw', 'catch catch', and 'info catch' commands to
  debug exception handlers in C++ with the A.06.00 and later compilers on
  Itanium-based systems.  WDB on PA-RISC systems already supported the
  'catch catch' and 'catch throw' commands.

* Significantly better performance on large executables with many linker
  stub symbols.  One large database vendor's server executable now starts up
  under the debugger in less than half the time of WDB version 4.5.

* Support for debugging C++ programs running under LRE (Linux Runtime
  Environment - IPF Linux binaries running on HP-UX).

* Release RTC library renamed:  Starting with WDB 5.0, the name of the
  release RTC library has been changed to librtc.so.1.  librtc.sl will be
  linked to librtc.so.1 for backward compatibility.  Librtc.so will also be
  linked to librtc.so.1.


HP WDB GUI 5.0 includes the following new functionality :

* Support for HP WDB debugger's Pathmap functionality:  WDB GUI 5.0 supports
  HP-WDB debugger's Pathmap functionality.  The Pathmap 'From' and 'To'
  dialog box lets you to define a list of substitution rules to be applied
  to path names to identify object files and the corresponding source files.
  Using this dialog box, you can add, delete, and change the priority order
  of pathmap.  The Pathmap dialog box can be accessed on the Edit menu by
  clicking Pathmap.  Alternately, you may also set the pathmap from WDB
  GUI's command view.


----------------------------

For more details about the WDB 5.0 version, visit http://www.hp.com/go/wdb.    
Thanks,
    
The HP-UX Debugger team
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