Re: [cdt-dev] CDT Roadmap Proposal

["Alain Magloire" <alain@xxxxxxx>]

> 
> Hi,
> Could you be more specific with the Win 32 debugger plugin.
> Will it be incorporated as it is today in the repository or will it be 
> improved?
> 

It will be improve, now whether it makes the cut for 2.1 ... it is too early
to say, in the fall we'll know better.

> 
> At 17:40 2004-08-12, you wrote:
> > >
> > > Is there somewhere we can look to find out what the "major debugger
> > > enhancements" for 2.1 are?  Is this fully captured in the list of debug
> > > items targeted for 2.1 in bugzilla?
> >
> >You can separate the debugger in two:
> >
> >- platform dependent
> >   * GDB/MI plugin
> >   * Win 32 plugin, new addition (incomplete).
> >
> >- platform independent
> >    * org.eclipse.cdt.debug.core
> >    * org.eclipse.cdt.debug.ui
> >    * org.eclipse.cdt.launch
> >
> >On the platform independent plugins, major surgery is ongoing.  Meaning
> >we are going through a second iteration: cleaning up things, nuking 
> >obsolete code,
> >working with Eclipse/debug folks when necessary for bugs in the platform, 
> >following
> >Eclipse-3.0 guidelines(3.0 was a major improvement on the debugger side), 
> >cleanup UI etc ..
> >This is heavy work that could not be completed on GA_2.0.
> >Mikhailk is carrying the load of those changes, he can elaborate more if 
> >needs be.
> >
> >
> >Platform dependent:
> >- On this front, we are looking of taking advantage of MI level 2
> >   and monitoring the gdb mailing list.  "mi2" offers some new 
> > features/commands.
> >   To do this there is some underlying framework that needs to be in place.
> >   Also the gdb maintainer(A. C.) made new proposals to MI, and we need to 
> > track
> >   all the activities for CDT.
> >
> >- Register grouping, some interests by some folks here, altough GDB nor MI
> >   offers this, the idea was to provide a way to group registers.
> >
> >- Thread breakpoints, it may not mean a thing on some platform, but we
> >   can still emulate it.  MI offers support for it.
> >
> >- Catch/Throw exception,  there is some level of support for this in GDB
> >   not complete, since this rely on C++ ABI(GCC) and it may not be possible
> >   to catch specific exceptions.
> >
> >- Looking at 0yvind patches 8-)
> >
> >- Second iteration of the CDI interface to provide better support for 
> >Multi-process
> >   and multi-thread.
> >
> >- Changes from Intel proposal for IAddress .. pending
> >
> >- Changes to support Target model (remote system) ... pending.
> >
> >We are still exploring the avenues, so it is hard to put a timeline on it.
> >If you something specific in mind that was not covered by a bugzilla PR or 
> >here
> >please post.
> >
> >
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