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RE: [cdt-dev] Question on future debugger interface

BTW, One of the exemplary implementations of a TCF agent is a Windows
debugger. I can't wait to try that out. We may end up with our Visual
C++ support for Windows sooner than we thought :)

Cheers,
Doug. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ken Ryall
> Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 2:26 PM
> To: CDT General developers list.
> Subject: Re: [cdt-dev] Question on future debugger interface
> 
> Rick,
> 
> We have been looking at some similar issues with debugger 
> integration and I'd like to second Pawel's suggest to look at 
> TCF. If you have any questions I'd be happy to share our experiences.
> 
> - Ken
> 
> > From: ext Pawel Piech <pawel.piech@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reply-To: "CDT General developers list." <cdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:46:24 -0700
> > To: "CDT General developers list." <cdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: Re: [cdt-dev] Question on future debugger interface
> > 
> > Hi Rick,
> > You may also want to consider the TCF debugger protocol currently 
> > being developed in the Target Management project (see 
> > http://wiki.eclipse.org/DSDP/TM/TCF_FAQ).  It already has a 
> reference 
> > agent implementation (in C) that you could re-use, which would save 
> > you the headache of implementing the MI protocol layer from scratch.
> > Also, as Marc pointed out GDB/MI protocol is evolving quite 
> a lot to 
> > support new features and keeping up with its changes will likely 
> > require considerable effort.  This shouldn't be a big surprise, as 
> > from my past discussions with GDB developers I got the 
> impression that 
> > GDB/MI as a standard protocol to be implemented by other 
> debuggers is 
> > definitely not on their agenda.
> > Cheers,
> > Pawel
> > 
> > 
> 
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