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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 dangling pointers
- 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 open files
Thread Debugging Capabilities
- Viewing extended information of pthread primitives
- Advanced runtime thread debugging to detect thread-related errors
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HP WDB 6.4 features |
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- Nudge/signal triggered Batch RTC Reporting
- Report leak/heap data from core file
- Callable and tunable RTC APIs
- Synchronize wdb with librtc settings in attach mode
- More intuitive RTC user messages
- C++ 11 support for "info args" command in variadic template functions
- HP WDB no longer supports debugging of C/C++ programs compiled with GNU compilers. HP recommends using the HP aCC compiler
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HP WDB GUI 6.4 features |
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HP WDB GUI 6.4 has no new feature additions over previous version of HP WDB GUI (6.3).
HP WDB GUI releases after version 5.8 do not contain any new feature additions over previous version of HP WDB GUI. Future releases of HP WDB GUI are made (only version number is changed) to make it compatible with the latest release of the HP WDB product
Following are the features of HP WDB GUI 5.8:
- Support for graphical display of batch RTC reports
- Support for graphical display of runtime heap and leaks
- Support for display of Nat Values for floating point registers
- Support for different display formats in register view
- Enhanced display for execution path
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Compatibility
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| HP 9000 Systems |
11i v1, 11i v2, 11i v3 |
HP aC++, HP C/ANSI C, and HP Fortran. |
| HP Integrity systems |
11i v2, and 11i v3 |
HP aC++, HP C/ANSI C, and HP Fortran. |
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 the HP WDB release notes:
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