Release Notes for SoftBench 8.01

Release Notes For SoftBench 8.01

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1 Release Notes For SoftBench 8.01

Announcements

SoftBench 8.X is the latest version of HP’s premier Integrated Development Environment for

C and C++ software developers. This version of SoftBench provides the same tight integration

(editing, building, debugging) on IPF, that has always been available from SoftBench on PA.

SoftBench 8.X also offers several innovative features:

• SoftBench 8.01 - The ﬁrst version of SoftBench to be released on IPF.

• The SoftBench project model helps you group important information together and reduce

the overall complexity of your software projects.

• SoftBench 6.30 and later does not require or provide network licensing.

• The SoftBench code analysis tool (CodeAdvisor), the SoftBench Software Developer’s Kit

(SDK), and the SoftBench Conﬁguration Management tool (SoftBench CM) are now

bundled with SoftBench:

C SoftBench includes SoftBench CM.

C++ SoftBench includes SoftBench CM, CodeAdvisor, and the SoftBench SDK.

• Blinklink has been removed from SoftBench. It is no longer bundled with the SoftBench

compilers.

• The HP-PAK (Puma) performance analyzer has been removed from SoftBench.

• The WDB-GUI debugger is now bundled with SoftBench.

• Support for HP-UX 11i is included in SoftBench 6.60.01 and later.

• ClearCase has not yet been integrated into SoftBench 8.01

• The Static Analyzer parser has been upgraded to match Version A.05.36 of the aC++

compiler.

• The Static Analyzer has been enhanced to display Public, Private, and Protected members

of all classes in a ﬁleset.

• SoftDebug has been removed from SoftBench.