Status: RELEASED

Patch Id: 115980-06

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Summary: dbx 7.2: Patch for Sun Studio 8 Debugger

Date:  May/27/2008

Installation Requirements:

NA

Solaris Release: 7 8 9

Sun OS Release: 5.7 5.8 5.9

Unbundled Product: Sun Studio 8 Debugger

Unbundled Release: 7.2

Xref: 

Topic: 

Relevant Architecture: sparc

BugId's fixed with this patch:

4673284 4958325 4974233 5022145 5082325 5085782 6174727 6198495 6202629 6312708 6343707 6375972 6424179 6627573 6664017

Changes incorporated in this version:

6627573 6664017

Patches accumulated and obsoleted by this patch:

Patches which conflict with this patch: 

Required Patches:

Obsoleted by:

Files Included in this Patch: 

<install_dir>/SUNWspro/prod/bin/dbx
<install_dir>/SUNWspro/prod/bin/sparcv9/dbx
<install_dir>/SUNWspro/prod/lib/dbxruntime/librtc.so
<install_dir>/SUNWspro/prod/lib/jdb.so
<install_dir>/SUNWspro/prod/lib/v9/dbxruntime/librtc.so
<install_dir>/SUNWspro/prod/lib/v9/jdb.so

Problem Description: 

6627573 dbx takes a long time to load with huge application
6664017 dbx cannot find debugging information and crashes with SIGABRT
 
(from 115980-05)
6375972 support external debugging info
4673284 dbx can not get the right progname when attach to a program without full path
 
(from 115980-04)
6424179 dbx is crashing in Type*Typetab::GetType(int,int)
 
(from 115980-03)
6202629 dbx will jump to a longjmp() call inside a function rather than stepping over it
6312708 Fortran array with unknown bounds causes dbx to mischievously issue internal error message
6343707 dbx incorrectly calculates the number of program headers in core file when there are more than 65535
 
(from 115980-02)
5082325 cannot set breakpoint in gui inside inline template code in a header
5085782 conditional breakpoint  inside template doesn't work correctly in Studio 9
6174727 dbx 7.3 crashes with segv whilst analyzing core
6198495 dbx gives inconsistent results on C++ 64bit stlport4 stringstreams under RTC access checking
 
(from 115980-01)
4958325 64-bit: Access checks on large contiguous heap block fail
4974233 dbx fix and continue causes Pro/E to crash with SIGILL
5022145 dbx kills processes it cannot control

Revision History: 

115980-01 115980-05 115980-03 115980-04 115980-02

Patch Installation Instructions: 

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For Solaris 7-9 releases, refer to the man pages for instructions on
using 'patchadd' and 'patchrm' scripts provided with Solaris.
Any other special or non-generic installation instructions should be
described below as special instructions.  The following example
installs a patch to a standalone machine:
 
        example# patchadd /var/spool/patch/106326-01
 
The following example removes a patch from a standalone system:
 
        example# patchrm 104945-02
 
For additional examples please see the appropriate man pages.

Special Install Instructions: 

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none.

README -- Last modified date:  Tuesday, May 27, 2008