•Enhanced info symbol ADDRESS command. The info symbol ADDRESS command has been enhanced to search for a symbol at the given address. Previously, the info symbol command could be used only to search the global namespace.

•Enhanced Java debugging support.

•Support for debugging C++ programs running under Linux Runtime Environment.

•Support for stop in/at dbx commands.

•Support for GNU GDB logging commands.

•Support for persistent display of expressions across re-runs. The user does not need to re-initiate the display settings for every run.

•Viewing wide character and wide-character strings of type wchar_t using the type print command.

•Support for debugging of executables with method and expressions involving covariant return types

•Support for commands, catch throw, catch catch, and info catch, for debugging exception handlers in C++ on Integrity systems, with the aCC compiler A.06.00 and later.

•Support for the steplast command for C and C++. However, steplast command is not supported.

•Support for dumping an array into an ASCII file.

•Support for the Fortran array slices.

•Source level debugging of Fortran applications that contain nested routines.

•Support for making command line calls in a stripped executable.

•Support for a terminal user interface that provides view of source while debugging at the WDB command line.

•support for debugging 32-bit and 64-bit PA-RISC programs as well as 64-bit Itanium programs .

•Support for assembly-level debugging.

•Support for a subset of xdb commands, enabled with -xdbmode.

•Support for Java/C/aCC++ stack unwinding with Java SDK version 1.3.1.02 or later for HP-UX.

•Visual Interface for HP WDB -tuimode supports output logging

•Command line calls for 64-bit PA-RISC applications that are not linked with end.o.

•Command watch_target.

•Command line option set display-full-paththat displays the full pathname of the source file name while printing the frame information.

•Command line option set dereference [on off] when off, WDB does not dereference char * variables by default.

•Support for show macro, macro expand to view, and expand macro expressions.

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