Updated 2001/06/11

Sun WorkShop[tm] 6 update 2 Readme

Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. About the Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 Release
  3. New Features
  4. Software Corrections
  5. Problems and Workarounds
  6. Limitations and Incompatibilities
  7. Documentation Errors

 


A. Introduction

This document contains last-minute information about the Sun WorkShop[tm] 6 update 2 integrated programming environment. This document describes the software corrections addressed by this release and lists known problems, limitations, and incompatibilities.

For installation-related and late-breaking information about this release, see the Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 Release Notes. Information in the release notes overrides information in all readme files.

To access the release notes and the complete Forte[tm] Developer/Sun WorkShop[tm] documentation set, point your Netscape[tm] Communicator 4.0 or compatible browser to the documentation index (file:/opt/SUNWspro/docs/index.html).

To view the text version of this readme, type the following at a command prompt:

   more /opt/SUNWspro/READMEs/workshop.readme

To view the HTML version of this readme, do one of the following:

Note - If your Sun WorkShop software is not installed in the /opt directory, ask your system administrator for the equivalent path on your system.

 


B. About the Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 Release

This Sun WorkShop release is available on the Solaris[tm] operating environment (SPARC[tm] Platform Edition) and Solaris operating environment (Intel Platform Edition) versions 2.6, 7, and 8.

To send comments or suggestions about Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 to the Sun WorkShop development team, choose Help > Send Comments from the main window.

 


C. New Features

This section describes the new and changed features in the Sun WorkShop 6 update 2, Sun WorkShop 6 update 1, and Sun WorkShop 6 releases of the integrated programming environment.

For information about the other new features in this release, see What's New in Sun WorkShop 6 update 2. To access this manual on your local system or network, point your browser to file:/opt/SUNWspro/docs/index.html. You can also access this manual by pointing your browser to http://docs.sun.com (then search book titles only for the words "What's New").

  1. Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 Integrated Programming Environment New Features

    The Vim text editor included with this release is version 5.6 (version 5.3 was included in the Sun WorkShop 6 release). For more information about the Vim text editor, see http://www.vim.org.

  2. Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 Integrated Programming Environment New Features

    For the Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 release of the integrated programming environment, there were software fixes regarding multiple session debugging and regarding the project wizard.

  3. Sun WorkShop 6 Integrated Programming Environment New Features

    The Sun WorkShop 6 integrated programming environment included the following new and changed features.

    1. Text Editing
    2. Debugging a Program
    3. Working With Projects


    1. Text Editing

      • The balloon expression evaluator instantly shows you the current value of the expression at which your cursor is pointing in your text editor. You can also see the type of expression and dereference the pointer through the balloon expression evaluator feature. For more information, see Using the Balloon Expression Evaluator in the Text Editing section of the online help.


      • The NEdit and Vim text editors are new integrated text editors for this release.

    2. Debugging a Program

      • The Button Editor now allows you to customize the toolbars in your editor window and the Debugging window, in addition to adding, removing, and editing buttons in the Custom Button window.


      • The Data History pane in the Debugging window has been replaced with tabs for Data History and Program I/O and an optional Data Display tab. The radio buttons for switching the Sessions and Threads panes have been replaced by tabs for Sessions, Threads, and Breakpoints.


      • In the Debugging Options dialog box, the Category list box has been replaced with tabs at the right side of the dialog box for switching among the categories of options.


      • New debugging options:

        • You now choose to direct program input or output to the Program I/O tab in the Debugging window.
        • You can now choose to have the call stack pop to the first debuggable source code if execution stops in a function in your program that is not debuggable source code.
        • You can now choose to set the step granularity to Line, so that a single next command steps through a line regardless of the number of statements it includes.
        • By default, the State, Stopped In, Evaluation Context, and number of sessions information is no longer displayed below the toolbar, but you can choose to display this information.
        • You can choose to not have the debugger warn you if the main () module of your program is not compiled with debugging information.
        • You can choose to have the Data Display window shown as a tab in the Debugging window or as a separate window.
        • You can delay the loading of modules compiled with -xs until the debugging information for these modules is needed, rather than having the modules loaded during the startup of the debugging session.
        • If you want to debug processes with a large number (up to 300) LWPs (lightweight processes), you can now set debugging to be conservative in its resource usage when doing so.
        • You can choose not to have the debugger check that dbx has exclusive control of the program being debugged.
        • You can choose to allow the debugger to exclude certain shared libraries that are critical to dbx functionality.

      • The option to allow watchpoints in multithreaded programs has been removed from the Debugging Options dialog box.

    3. Working With Projects

      The Sun WorkShop 6 release of the integrated programming environment uses projects to track the files, programs, and targets associated with your development projects and to build your programs without the necessity of you writing a makefile. The new command makeprd(1) is a command-line utility that lets you build your Sun WorkShop project files outside the programming environment.

Components or features to be removed in the future. The following Forte Developer components or features are expected to be removed in the next major release:




D. Software Corrections

There is no new information at this time.




E. Problems and Workarounds

This section discusses known software problems and possible workarounds for those problems. For updates, check the Forte Developer Hot Product News web page at http://www.sun.com/forte/developer/hotnews.html.

This section is divided into the following subsections:

  1. Sun WorkShop Problems and Workarounds
  2. Building Problems and Workarounds
  3. Browsing Problems and Workarounds
  4. Debugging Problems and Workarounds
  5. Editing Problems and Workarounds
  6. NEdit Problems and Workarounds
  7. Vi Problems and Workarounds
  8. Vim Problems and Workarounds
  9. File Chooser Problems and Workarounds
  10. Data Visualizer Problems and Workarounds

  1. Sun WorkShop Problems and Workarounds

  2. Building Problems and Workarounds
  3. Browsing Problems and Workarounds
  4. Debugging Problems and Workarounds (See Also the Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 dbx Readme)

  5. Editing Problems and Workarounds

  6. NEdit Problems and Workarounds
  7. Vi Problems and Workarounds

  8. Vim Problems and Workarounds

  9. File Chooser Problems and Workarounds
  10. Data Visualizer Problems and Workarounds

 


F. Limitations and Incompatibilities 

This section discusses limitations and incompatibilities with systems or other software.

  1. Browsing Limitations and Incompatibilities

  2. Debugging Limitations and Incompatibilities (See Also the Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 dbx Readme)

  3. Collector Limitations and Incompatibilities
  4. Visual Limitations and Incompatibilities

  5. Editing Limitations and Incompatibilities

 


G. Documentation Errors 

There is no information at this time.

 


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