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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.
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Enhanced Java debugging support.
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Support for debugging C++ programs running under Linux Runtime Environment.
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Support for stop in/at dbx commands.
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Support for GNU GDB logging commands.
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Support for persistent display of expressions across re-runs. The user does not
need to re-initiate the display settings for every run.
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Viewing wide character and wide-character strings of type wchar_t using the
type print
command.
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Support for debugging of executables with method and expressions involving
covariant return types
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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.
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Support for the steplast command for C and C++. However, steplast
command is not supported.
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Support for dumping an array into an ASCII file.
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Support for the Fortran array slices.
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Source level debugging of Fortran applications that contain nested routines.
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Support for making command line calls in a stripped executable.
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Support for a terminal user interface that provides view of source while debugging
at the WDB command line.
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support for debugging 32-bit and 64-bit PA-RISC programs as well as 64-bit Itanium
programs .
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Support for assembly-level debugging.
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Support for a subset of xdb commands, enabled with -xdb mode.
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Support for Java/C/aCC++ stack unwinding with Java SDK version 1.3.1.02 or later
for HP-UX.
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Visual Interface for HP WDB -tui mode supports output logging
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Command line calls for 64-bit PA-RISC applications that are not linked with end.o.
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Command watch_target.
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Command line option set display-full-path that displays the full pathname
of the source file name while printing the frame information.
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Command line option set dereference [on |off] when off, WDB does
not dereference char * variables by default.
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Support for show macro, macro expand to view, and expand macro
expressions
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14.1 Summary of HP Enhancements to GDB
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