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The HP Wildebeest Debugger (WDB) is an HP-supported implementation of the Open Source GNU debugger (GDB).
The HP WDB GUI is a graphical user interface (GUI) designed by Hewlett-Packard for the HP Wildebeest Debugger (WDB).
HP WDB additionally provides the following advanced debugging capabilities:
- Memory Debugging Capabilities
- Detecting memory leaks
- Profiling heap usage
- Profiling arena and process
- Detecting heap corruption and double-frees
- Scrambling un-initialized data values
- Detecting and simulating out-of-memory conditions
- Detecting memory corruptions
- Thread Debugging Capabilities
- Viewing status information of pthread primitives
- Advanced runtime thread checking
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HP WDB 5.8 features: |
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- Supports Batch mode of thread debugging
- Detects various kinds of memory corruptions
- Displays run time type information
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Compatibility
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HP-UX versions |
Compilers |
| HP 9000 Systems |
11i v1, 11i v2, 11i v3 |
HP aC++, HP C/ANSI C, and HP Fortran. Limited support for debugging 3.4.3 gcc/g++ binaries. |
| HP Integrity systems |
11i v2, and 11i v3 |
HP aC++, HP C/ANSI C, and HP Fortran. Limited support for debugging 3.4.3 gcc/g++ binaries. |
Note: The debuggers xdb and HP DDE are obsolete.
Patch information
To debug PA-RISC applications on Integrity systems by using the latest PA debugger, see the HP WDB Patch information.
Product information
For detailed information on product features, see the documentation.
For detailed information on HP WDB 5.8 and HP WDB GUI 5.8, see the HP WDB release notes:
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