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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 memory corruptions
Thread Debugging Capabilities
- Viewing extended information of pthread primitives
- Advanced runtime thread debugging to detect thread-related errors
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HP WDB 6.0 features |
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- New command for searching a pattern in the memory address space
- New command to unwind beyond 10000 frames
- 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
- Additional provisions to attach a PA-RISC debugger to a PA-RISC process
- Improvement in performance of memory debugging for the set heap-check string option.
- Support for specifying output directory for batch mode thread debugging
- Improved C++ debugging support
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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 the HP WDB release notes:
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