Bug 579212

Summary:	Memory view defaults to scroll mode Automatic on Windows and Manual on Linux
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Jonah Graham <jonah>
Component:	Debug	Assignee:	Platform-Debug-Inbox <platform-debug-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	jonah
Version:	4.19
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 10
Whiteboard:

Description Jonah Graham

2022-03-10 20:23:55 EST

As reported here for the Eclipse Embedded CDT project - https://github.com/eclipse-embed-cdt/eclipse-plugins/discussions/511#discussioncomment-2328640

The Table Renderings Preferences seem to default to "Automatic" on Windows and "Manual" on Linux. This should default to the same thing. 

This can be reproduced with Platform Debug alone by using the "Sample Memory Launch Type" in the debug examples plugin.

Comment 1 Jonah Graham

2022-03-10 20:29:48 EST

Turns out this is by design to work around a known issue - see Bug 74559.

The relevant code is:

		if (MemoryViewUtil.isLinuxGTK()) {
			prefs.setDefault(IDebugPreferenceConstants.PREF_DYNAMIC_LOAD_MEM, false);
		}
		else {
			prefs.setDefault(IDebugPreferenceConstants.PREF_DYNAMIC_LOAD_MEM, true);
		}

https://git.eclipse.org/r/plugins/gitiles/platform/eclipse.platform.debug/+/refs/heads/master/org.eclipse.debug.ui/ui/org/eclipse/debug/internal/ui/DebugUIPreferenceInitializer.java

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 74559 ***