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ALPDEBU07_070 Alpha V7.0 DEBUG ECO Summary
Copyright (c) Digital Equipment Corporation 1997. All rights reserved.
PRODUCT: OpenVMS Alpha
COMPONENT: DEBUG - DEBUG.EXE
DEBUGSHR.EXE
DEBUGUISHR.EXE
DBG$HA_KERNEL.EXE
DBG$HA_MAIN.EXE
VMSDEBUGUIL.UID
SOURCE: Digital Equipment Corporation
ECO INFORMATION:
ECO Kit Name: ALPDEBU07_070
ECO Kits Superseded by This ECO Kit: ALPDEBU01_071
ALPDEBU06_070
ALPDEBU03_070
ALPDEBU02_070
ALPDEBU01_070
ECO Kit Approximate Size: 9882 Blocks
Kit Applies To: OpenVMS Alpha V7.0
System/Cluster Reboot Necessary: No
Installation Rating: 3 - To be installed on all systems running
the listed versions of OpenVMS which
are experiencing the problems described.
NOTE: In order to receive the full fixes listed in this kit,
the following remedial kits also need to be installed:
None
ECO KIT SUMMARY:
An ECO kit exists for DEBUG on OpenVMS Alpha V7.0. This kit
addresses the following problems:
Problems Addressed in the ALPDEBU07_070 kit
o There are no new problem fixes in this kit. The kit is being
re-issued as a single version kit. If you have installed the
ALPDEBU01_071 remedial kit, you do not need to install the
ALPDEBU07_070 kit.
Problems Addressed in the ALPDEBU01_071 Kit:
o Build the debugger against Motif V1.2-3 and provide workarounds
in the debugger for bugs which are currently fixed in Motif V1.2-4.
Problems Addressed in the ALPDEBU06_070 Kit:
o HELP file was not included in the ALPDEBU05_070 ECO kit.
Problems Addressed in the ALPDEBU03_070 ECO Kit (V7.0 Only):
o The debugger may hang with DECthreads and kernel threads enabled.
Problems Addressed in the ALPDEBU02_070 Kit:
o On startup, DEBUG occasionally fails with an ACCVIO on some Alpha
programs.
Problems Addressed in the ALPDEBU01_070 Kit (V7.0 Only):
o Japanese users report that the Debug GUI does not support
Kana-Kanji conversions.
o Source view line numbers are not visible on Alpha systems running
CDE and Motif V1.2.4.
o It is difficult to debug problems in the Heap Analyzer (HA) kernel,
especially problems during startup.
o HA main was failing to display error messages to SYS$OUTPUT when
appropriate. In particular, when DECW$DISPLAY was not set properly,
HA main failed to inform the user of its inability to run.
o User Interface Language (UIL) files contained names > 31 characters
long which cause UIL compilation failures on V7.0.
o Applications linked with PTHREAD$RTL go into an infinite loop when
run with the Heap Analyzer (HA) and with kernel threads enabled.
o Narrow the window between when DEBUG gains control and the call to
the threads facility to stop task scheduling.
RELATED ARTICLES:
Detailed articles describing the problems listed above may exist in the
OpenVMS database. To view these articles, open the appropriate product
database and perform a query using either of the following search
strings: 'ALPDEBU07_070' or 'ALPDEBU'.
ECO KIT ORDERING INSTRUCTIONS:
If after an evaluation you wish to obtain this kit, request it
electronically using the appropriate Advanced Electronic Services
(AES) Service Tool. If you are not familiar with how to request
kits electronically, open the DIA, WIS or DSNLINK database and
review the article entitled:
[AES] How To Electronically Request ECO Kits Using Service Tools
INSTALLATION NOTES:
The system does not need to be rebooted after this kit is installed.
However, if you have other nodes in your OpenVMS VMScluster, they should
be rebooted or you should install this kit on each system in order to
make use of the new image(s).
[R] Motif, OSF, and OSF/Motif are registered trademarks of the
Open Software Foundation, Inc.
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| Table of Kit Image Information |
+----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
| | Overall | Image File | Image Link |
| Image Name | Checksum | Identification | Date/Time |
+----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
| DBG$HA_KERNEL.EXE | 9329848B | V7.0-03R | 13-JUN-1996 |
| | | 22:39:31.66 |
+----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
| DBG$HA_MAIN.EXE | 7F996A1C | V7.0-03R | 13-JUN-1996 |
| | | 22:41:06.46 |
+----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
| DEBUG.EXE | 3D277D83 | V7.0-03R | 13-JUN-1996 |
| | | 22:41:05.79 |
+----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
| DEBUGSHR.EXE | BE72A738 | V7.0-03R | 13-JUN-1996 |
| | | 22:40:18.66 |
+----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
| DEBUGUISHR.EXE | 5C18664C | V7.0-03R | 13-JUN-1996 |
| | | 22:40:57.73 |
+----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
|
