Changes are:
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Documentation
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- There is a new DDD manual, generated from Texinfo source, and coming
in HTML, PDF, PostScript, Info, as well as plain text format.
Debuggers and Languages
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- This release contains partial support for DEC's `ladebug' debugger.
Please send in bug reports listing remaining problems.
- Parsing of JDB data has been improved.
- DBX prompts for object file names are recognized.
User Interface
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- `Breakpoint Properties', `Define Command', and `Debugger Settings'
have an `Apply' button that applies changes to text fields.
- In TTY mode, you can edit and complete the command line as in GDB.
(Uses GNU readline library.)
- Ctrl+E moves the cursor to the end of the line. For a `Run'
shortcut, use F2/F3 or Shift+Ctrl+E.
- DDD uses the locale as specified by the environment (such as $LANG).
This allows input of locale characters in DDD dialogs; error
messages may also come up in your locale. If you experience any
problems, set LANG=C when invoking DDD.
Plotting
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- If you have several indexed variables in a cluster (such as X[1],
X[3], and X[5]), DDD plots the cluster as 2-D plot, where the X axis
shows the index, and the Y axis shows the values. This is useful for
plotting array slices (see below).
Source Navigation
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- Using GDB, `Open Source' no longer automatically reads all shared
libraries of the debuggee; this took too much time with some programs.
There is an additional button that loads libraries.
Data exploration
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- You can rotate structs, saving space by omitting the member names.
A rotated struct looks very much like a horizontal array.
- The last rotation setting is used for new displays and is saved
together with other DDD options.
- Array slices `ARRAY[FROM..TO]' are much better supported:
* By default, the displayed values are clustered and displayed like an
ordinary array.
* Array slices can be plotted, too (see `Plotting', above).
- You can use the FROM..TO notation in arbitrary values, and also multiple
times; `graph display 1..5 * 1..5' creates a multiplication table.
- To select multiple displays, it suffices that the selection rectangle
touches a display (rather than enclosing it entirely).
- The Display Editor has buttons for clustering and unclustering displays.
Running the Program
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- Breakpoint commands are also supported for DBX, Perl, and XDB.
- In Perl, DDD supports temporary breakpoints.
Settings
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- DDD saves the GDB source directory path with the current session.
- DDD saves the JDB class path only with the current session.
Bug Fixes
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- Auto-raised menus work much better (enabled by default).
- The `floating' command tool now correctly follows movements of the
main window under KDE and other window managers.
- The register window is updated when the current frame changes.
- Value tips of strings containing ` = ' are displayed correctly.
- In file names, `//' is no longer normalized to `/'. This is useful
for special file systems, where '//c/foo' is an alias for `c:\foo`.
- Improved session management: `checkpoint sessions' not needed for shutdown
(as initiated by GNOME) are automatically deleted after exiting DDD.
- Improved auto-command recognition (includes saving displays across sessions)
- [LessTif] Selecting all displays in the Display Editor now works.
- [DBX] The array syntax `graph display [A..B]' works again for DBX.
- [DBX] Redirection to the execution window with Sun DBX 4.0 no
longer clutters program arguments.
- [Perl] Selecting identifiers that represent large data structures no longer
blocks DDD.
- [JDB] Thread names with dashes are handled correctly.
- [HP-UX] Renaming the `~/.ddd/init' file during saving options works.
- [Build] New `libiberty' and `configure' packages from GDB 4.18.
- [Build] If supported, `-isystem' is used for including system headers.
- [Build] If supported and required, `-fpermissive' is used for old X headers.
