[news.eclipse.dsdp] Re: How generic is DSF?

[Jesper Eskilson <jesper.eskilson@xxxxxx>]

Martin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was at EclipseCon and went to a session about DSF (reverse debugging - 
> really cool)
>
> Now a couple of months later I'm in the position where I would like to add 
> debug support to
> our own IDE and I thought that DSF perhaps is the solution.
>
> Here is the situation:
> The debugger and compiler is propritary to my company and cannot produce any 
> standard symbol formats (like ELF)
> Besides the hard work is it possibile to use DSF to bridge between the 
> Eclipse UI and the remote debugger?

Yes, definitely. In your case, you will need to define a new content 
type for your output format. If you want to be able to explore symbols 
etc. in the binary you will need to provide a binary parser as well.

However, you will find that also DSF tries to be as generic and flexible 
as possible, there are quite a few places where the GNU/GCC/GDB bias has 
snuck in.

We're working on a DSF integration with our compiler/debugger which has 
all sorts of non-GNU-ish behaviors, and its actually turning out pretty ok.

--
/Jesper