Re: [cdt-debug-dev] address spaces

["Mikhail Khodjaiants" <mikhailk@xxxxxxx>]

John,

I don't think we are going to update this for 3.0. Alain has problems with
his e-mail, hopefully he will eventually fix it and we'll get his comments
on ICDILocation.

Mikhail
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Cortell" <r4609c@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "CDT Debug developers list" <cdt-debug-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 8:08 PM
Subject: Re: [cdt-debug-dev] address spaces


> [Any comments on this? Would updating CDT (in cases like the one I
> mentioned below and in tweaking IAddress) to support address spaces be
> considered too disruptive?]
>
> Consider ICDILocation - used for breakpoints, among other things. It has
> a getAddress() method that returns a BigInteger. So at least there we
> have one case where it's assumed a memory location can be represented
> with a single integral value. I'm suspecting there are other such cases,
> but I don't know that for sure.
>
> John
>
> At 12:10 PM 6/8/2005, Mikhail Khodjaiants wrote:
>
>
>
> I'm not sure that I'm getting it right, but we use "IAddress" to
> represent
> an address in CDT. We would need to modify the address presentation
> parts,
> but that's a minor thing. Or there is something more generic that I'm
> missing?
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John Cortell" <r4609c@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "CDT Debug developers list" <cdt-debug-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>; "CDT Debug
> developers list" <cdt-debug-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 2:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [cdt-debug-dev] address spaces
>
> > As per my description, this issue goes beyond the Memory Window.
> Please
> > see
> > my description of the "complete" support level.
> >
> > John
> >
> > At 11:29 AM 6/8/2005, Mikhail Khodjaiants wrote:
> >
> >>It would be better to post this questions to the platform mailing list
>
> >>(platform-debug-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx). The Memory View implementation in
> CDT
> > is
> >>based on the  platform framework and UI. The modifications to support
> >>address spaces should be done in the platform.
> >>
> >>----- Original Message ----- 
> >>From: "John Cortell" <r4609c@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>To: <cdt-debug-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 12:44 PM
> >>Subject: [cdt-debug-dev] address spaces
> >>
> >> > Has there been any meaningful discussions on adding support for
> > address
> >> > spaces in Eclipse/CDT? I understand this was brought up as an item
> > in
> >> > the
> >> > Chicago meeting last month. The way we see it, there are two levels
>
> > of
> >> > support:
> >> >
> >> > - superficial : user can view the contents of memory in different
> >> > address
> >> > spaces in the Memory View.
> >> >
> >> > - complete : variables, expressions and code locations can be in
> >> > different
> >> > address spaces. For this level of support, the debugger
> > infrastructure
> >> > would need to use something other than a primitive integer type to
> >> > represent a memory address. A particular location in memory would
> > have
> >> > to
> >> > be represented by an address + address space identifier.
> >> >
> >> > I understand the need for this sort of thing is particular to the
> >> > embedded
> >> > world. Still, if CDT is to be considered a viable platform for the
> >> > embedded
> >> > market, address spaces will need to be considered.
> >> >
> >> > Thoughts?
> >> >
> >> > John
> >> >
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