[cdt-debug-dev] [Bug 40543] New: Add embedded (or better eCos) debug tar

[Øyvind Harboe <oyvind.harboe@xxxxxxxxx>]

>Well 0yvind, it is a good time to learn Eclipse/contribution/
>plugins 8-)

I thought I already was contributing in small ways by using
Eclipse CDT for a real project, assimilating other users
and reporting bugs :-)

To be the responsible for CDT in-house in addition to a dozen
other open source thingies(eCos, GCJ, GCC, Eclipse JDT, Linux 
Samba, etc.) keeps me on my toes :-)

Having said that, I did try (and failed) to get the PalmOS thingy
to compile. (For lack of reading up on basic Eclipse Plugin
development docs, to be sure).

>There are talks to provide a cdt-contrib spaces where all 
>the usefull plugins can be put.
>
>The CDT debug plugin uses contributions to let other types of 
>debugger integrate.  It would be impossible to provide all the
>variations of debuggers, and also a maintainance nightmare for the 
>CDT/Debug team.

I can see that.

But don't you need to have a fair number of such plugins 
developped "in house" in order to know that your framework
can do the job?

Embedded targets are *very* different beasts from PC(Linux/Windows)
applications.

They are e.g. be very, very slow, hence requiring lazy/asynchronous
updates of local variables.

I myself have made an opensource framework for factoring large 
numbers, the plugins will be contibuted by the community... :-)

>Hopefully other third parties or personnal contributions  
>will provide different plugins for the debugger.

I'd be happy if CDT supported GDB out of the box as well as 
Insight does ;-)

Øyvind