•Support for evaluating macros.
•Support for printing the execution path entries in the current frame, or thread.
•New Command for Searching a Pattern in the Memory Address Space
•New Option to Limit the Number of Frames Unwound
•Updated Procedure to Process the Initialization File
•Enhancement to the info shared Command
•Enhancement to the info target Command
•Support for automatic debugging of shared libraries
•Attaching a
•Improvement in the performance of memory debugging for the string option
NOTE: For new commands see HP WDB Release Notes available at http:// www.hp.com/go/wdb.
14.2 HP-UX dependencies
14.2.1Linker Dependencies
Several features available in WDB depend on specific versions of the linker or the compiler.
•Linker patch required for +objdebug
For releases prior to
•Support for debugging incrementally linked
This feature requires linker version B.11.18 or later on
•Support to automatically preload librtc.sl with chatr +mem_check option.
This feature requires linker version B.11.61 and later on HP 9000 systems, and linker version B.12.46 and later on Integrity systems. +mem_check option is used only for memory debugging.
•Support to automatically preload librtc.sl with chatr +rtc option.
This feature requires linker version B.11.66 and later on HP 9000 systems, and linker version B.12.51 and later on Integrity systems. However, +mem_check option is retained with the latest Linker version.
14.2.2Dependent Standard Library Routines for Run Time Checking
The Run Time Checking feature (Interactive and Batch Mode) of WDB cannot be used with applications that
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