TotalView News
Consult the "New Features" section within TotalView's Help system for a discussion of the new features contained within TotalView. Our web site highlights these changes.
This section describes changes that are not mentioned in that document. New items are in bold.
Group > Reload symbols command no longer necessary
TotalView will automatically reload symbols if it discovers you have recompiled your program
Using libdbfork on AIX
On AIX, 64-bit binaries for version 4.3 are completely different from 64-bit binaries for version 5.1. Thus, you will need to link with a version of the dbfork library that is specific to your operating system. If you are creating 64-bit code on AIX 4.3, use:
/usr/totalview/lib.libdbfork_64.a \
-bkeepfile:/usr/totalview/lib.libdbfork_64.a
On AIX 5.1 use:
/usr/totalview/lib.libdbfork_64_51.a \
-bkeepfile:/usr/totalview/lib.libdbfork_64_51.a
.tvdrc File
The location of the .tvdrc has moved. Begining at Version 6.0, TotalView creates a .totalview subdirectory within your home directory. It expects to find your .tvdrc within this subdirectory. Temporarily, TotalView will also look in your home directory for a .tvdrc if it doesn't find a .tvdrc file in the .totalview subdirectory. This means that you do not need to move your startup file immediately. However, we do not guarantee that future versions will look in both places.
X Resources and preferences
Prior to Version 6.0, you could alter TotalView's behavior by setting values in an .Xdefaults file. Beginning at Version 6.0, you should either use TotalView's preferences or set variables in a .tvdrc file. TotalView will read your .Xdefaults file the first time it comes up in version 6 and then translate any values it finds into variables, and then write these variables into its preferences file. After this time, it will ignore your .Xdefaults file.
If, however, you are placing entries in an .Xdefaults file that modify the Visualizer's behavior, these entries will continue to be used.
cset demangler option replaced by xlf
The cset demangler option to the -demangler command line option and the TV::current_cplus_demangler variable is deprecated and replaced by the xlf option.
