Debuggers on borg

Last Updated: January 11, 2001

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The HP WDB 1.0 Wildebeest debugger

The HP WDB 1.0 is an HP-supported implementation of the GDB debugger, developed by the Free Software Foundation. HP WDB 1.0, based on GDB 4.16, supports the debugging of 32 and 64 bit programs as well as multi-threaded programs.

Documentation (in addition to the online man page: man gdb or man wdb):

• To learn more about WDB
  
  
• Web documents including tutorials
  
  
• Debugging with GDB, the HP-specific version of the GDB manual, is available in both PDF and PostScript formats on the Web from HP (see Web documents) and can be found in the /opt/langtools/wdb/doc directory on borg. The PDF file gdb.pdf may be viewed using the Adobe acroread program:
  lsrun acroread /opt/langtools/wdb/doc/gdb.pdf
  
  
• A reference card (quickstart.pdf) is also available on the Web (see Web documents) and on borg in the /opt/langtools/wdb/doc directory:
  lsrun acroread /opt/langtools/wdb/doc/quickstart.pdf
  
  
• The postscript versions on borg (gdb.ps and quickstart.ps) may be printed using lp.

The DDE debugger

The DDE debugger is a source level debugger that supports most HP languages.

Documentation (in addition to the online man page: man dde):

• HP/DDE Debugger User's Guide