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ALPDEBU04_071 Alpha V7.1 DEBUG ECO Summary
Copyright (c) Compaq Computer Corporation 1998, 1999. All rights reserved.
Modification Date: 06-Aug-99
Modification Type: Updated Kit: Supersedes ALPDEBU03_071
PRODUCT: DIGITAL OpenVMS Alpha
COMPONENT: DEBUG - DEBUG.EXE
DEBUGSHR.EXE
DEBUGUISHR.EXE
DBGTBKMSG.EXE
DBG$HA_KERNEL.EXE
DBG$HA_MAIN.EXE
VMSDEBUGUIL.UID
SOURCE: Compaq Computer Corporation
ECO INFORMATION:
ECO Kit Name: ALPDEBU04_071
ECO Kits Superseded by This ECO Kit: ALPDEBU03_071
ALPDEBU02_071
ALPDEBU01_071
ECO Kit Approximate Size: 10476 Blocks
Kit Applies To: OpenVMS Alpha V7.1, V7.1-1H1, V7.1-1H2
System/Cluster Reboot Necessary: No
Installation Rating: INSTALL_3
3 - To be installed on all systems running
the listed versions of OpenVMS which
are experiencing the problems described.
Kit Dependencies:
The following remedial kit(s) must be installed BEFORE
installation of this kit:
None
In order to receive all the corrections listed in this
kit, the following remedial kits should also be installed:
None
ECO KIT SUMMARY:
An ECO kit exists for DEBUG on OpenVMS Alpha V7.1 through V7.1-1H2.
This kit addresses the following problems:
Problems Addressed in the ALPDEBU04_071 Kit:
o The debugger's source view oscillates horizontally (steady state)
after an upgrade to Motif V1.2-5.
Images(s) Affected:
- [SYSLIB]DEBUGSHR.EXE
- [SYSLIB]DEBUGUISHR.EXE
- [SYSLIB]VMSDEBUGUIL.UID
Problems Addressed in the ALPDEBU03_071 Kit:
o Examines (checks) of global/shared data often show stale
values.
o Monitor view performance suffers severe performance degradation
when the number of monitored items increases. For example,
expanding a 900-element aggregate could take more than 20 minutes.
The performance loss continues even when monitored items are collapsed
or removed (even across runs/reruns). The performance degradation
first started in OpenVMS V7.0.
After installation of this kit the same expansion would take
under a minute.
o Links for System Code Debugger (SCD) relevant OpenVMS V6.2
debug image versions failed to deassign a SYS$BASE_IMAGE
logical.
The original linktime problem occurred with DEBUG.EXE, since
it was linked against an OpenVMS V6.2 version of SYS$BASE_IMAGE.
In this case, some features such as SET BREAK/SYSEMULATE were
disabled.
Problems Addressed in the ALPDEBU02_071 Kit:
o The debugger sometimes displays the wrong source and symbolic
information. That is, sometimes it reads the DSTs from the
wrong image or DSF file.
o Some commands, with several different languages, yield messages
similar to:
%DEBUG-E-OPNOTALLOW, operator 'AND' not allowed on given data types
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.
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: 'ALPDEBU04_071' 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).
==========================================================================
| Table of Kit Image Information |
+----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
| | Overall | Image File | Image Link |
| Image Name | Checksum | Identification | Date/Time |
+----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
| DBG$HA_KERNEL.EXE | 27F0EF28 | V7.1-06R | 1-JUN-1999 |
| | | 16:55:36.94 |
+----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
| DBG$HA_MAIN.EXE | 9A5A9D80 | V7.1-06R | 1-JUN-1999 |
| | | 17:04:26.81 |
+----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
| DBGTBKMSG.EXE | 6F9AA723 | V7.1-06R | 1-JUN-1999 |
| | | 17:03:52.53 |
+----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
| DEBUG.EXE | 4D98C6BD | V7.1-06R | 1-JUN-1999 |
| | | 17:03:09.53 |
+----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
| DEBUGSHR.EXE | CB31736A | V7.1-06R | 1-JUN-1999 |
| | | 17:00:46.53 |
+----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
| DEBUGUISHR.EXE | 38B14144 | V7.1-06R | 1-JUN-1999 |
| | | 17:03:46.07 |
+----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
|
