RE: [cdt-debug-dev] Applying patches

["Schaefer, Doug" <Doug.Schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There are a number of answers to the question on why there is little activity on gdb/mi in CDT today. I guess the number one reason is that none of the remaining active committers (as Alain mentioned, he is no longer active) have a vested interest in it. This is the situation I have feared for a long time and it has now come to pass. The committers either interface with their own debuggers, not MI, or do not have expertise or interest in debug.

This is why I'm helping bring DSF with it's new MI integration into the CDT fold. My hope is that the exciting new thing with the help of the people working on it can bring it to the CDT community at large. However, DSF likely won't be a full replacement for the CDI GDB/MI stuff until next year.

In the meantime, we are working to get Elena commit rights. It takes time to build up the her experience and patch evidence to ensure we have a good committer vote. Having Alain spend a little time on her patches would be a huge help in making this happen sooner ;)

Cheers,
Doug.

-----Original Message-----
From: cdt-debug-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cdt-debug-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Øyvind Harboe
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 4:16 PM
To: cdt-debug-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx; alain@xxxxxxx
Subject: [cdt-debug-dev] Applying patches

>  Bonjour,
>
>   Folks,  a bunch of outstanding patches were in the backlog, I help 
> clean a  little, thanks to Elena:
>
>  bugs
>  219863 nor P3 Wind ken.ryall@xxxxxxxxx ASSI regression: Address 
> breakpoints  inserted from console do not resolve location properly  
> 218260 nor P3 Wind cdt-debug-inbox@xxxxxxxxxxx NEW Performance issues 
> while  stepping through with many threads
>  221944 nor P3 Wind cdt-debug-inbox@xxxxxxxxxxx NEW Cannot display 
> long long  int as hex
>
>  features
>  220045 nor P3 Wind cdt-debug-inbox@xxxxxxxxxxx NEW Debuger is 
> stopping on  non-existing breakpoints for files with same name
>  221408 nor P3 Wind cdt-debug-inbox@xxxxxxxxxxx NEW Ability to move  
> breakpoints manually to a different line

Merci!

I'm just wondering: why is there so little activity on the CDT GDB implementation?

There are a fair number of "trivial" fixes like the above that will make a *big* difference.

E.g. this bug is serious enough that it should have seen activity if there was anyone at all working full time on CDT GDB:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=208984

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