Re: [cdt-debug-dev] ICDISourceManagement getInstructions and getMixedIns

[Jerome CORRENOZ <jerome.correnoz@xxxxxx>]

Dear All,

I am developping a plug-in for Disassembly View with following features:
    - Switch to display disassembly without interleaved C.
    - Go directly to a specific address in the assembly code. Address may
be a number (hexadecimal, decimal, or octal) or a symbol name.
    - Retrieve the disassembly at the current program counter.
    - Sliding by next/prev page. 

I intend to retrofit this
plugin to the community if someone is interested and if it is possible. An
alpha version is available (Eclipse3.1, CDT 3.0.0).

To develop this plug-in, I modified some CDT source files. In particular,
I need the following methods in ICDISourceManagement
class (needed for "goto symbol name"):
    ICDIInstruction[] getInstructions(String startAddress, String endAddress)
    ICDIInstruction[] getMixedInstructions(String startAddress, String endAddress)

Is it possible to add these methods in CDT ? How to ask for other CDT sources
modifications ? 
How to retrofit my modified sources to the community ? 
Is it possible to be implied in the development of this feature for CDT 3.1
?

Regards,
    Jerome Correnoz
    STMicroelectronics    

Mikhail Khodjaiants wrote:
> We
> haven't done the 3.1 planning yet. We want to get the feedback from the  CDT
> conference. 
> There are Bugzilla requests for the features you mentioned and we will  consider
> them for 3.1. 
>  
> ----- Original Message -----  From: "Alexiev, Dobrin" <dalexiev@xxxxxx> 
>   
> To: "CDT Debug developers list" <cdt-debug-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
> Cc: "Chuong, Patrick" <pchuong@xxxxxx> 
> Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 12:14 PM 
> Subject: RE: [cdt-debug-dev] ICDISourceManagement getInstructions  andgetMixedInstructions 
>   
>  
>  
> > Thanks Mikhail. 
> > Do you anything about the timeline of this development? 
> >  
> > Probably the one that I am most interested is virtual scrolling of 
> > disassembly view past the border of the current stack frame function. 
> > It is similar user interaction to the memory window. Many IDEs have it. 
> >  
> > Also what about having multiple views of the disassembly view? 
> >  
> > Regards 
> > Dobrin 
> >  
> > -----Original Message----- 
> > From: cdt-debug-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx 
> > [mailto:cdt-debug-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mikhail 
> > Khodjaiants 
> > Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 11:25 AM 
> > To: CDT Debug developers list 
> > Subject: Re: [cdt-debug-dev] ICDISourceManagement getInstructions 
> > andgetMixedInstructions 
> >  
> > Dobrin, 
> >  
> > The "setSourcePaths" method is also used by the implementation. I 
> > believe we 
> > will deprecate the "getInstructions" and "getMixedInstructions" methods 
> > without limiting line number. 
> > Regarding the remaining methods, you can ignore them for now. But there 
> > are 
> > many requests to add new features to the Disassembly view and the Source 
> >  
> > lookup, so it is possible that we will use these methods in the future. 
> >  
> > Mikhail 
> > ----- Original Message -----  From: "Alexiev, Dobrin" <dalexiev@xxxxxx> 
> >     
> > To: <cdt-debug-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
> > Cc: "Chuong, Patrick" <pchuong@xxxxxx> 
> > Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 10:04 AM 
> > Subject: [cdt-debug-dev] ICDISourceManagement getInstructions and 
> > getMixedInstructions 
> >  
> >  
> > > I am implementing a CDT debugger using the CDI
> > > interface. 
> > >  
> > > I noticed that out of 5 functions for getting the disassembly 
> > > instructions in the ICDISourceManagement interface only two are 
> > > referenced in the CDT code - 
> > >  
> > > getMixedInstructions( String filename,int linenum,int lines) 
> > >  
> > > getInstructions(BigInteger startAddress, BigInteger endAddress) 
> > >  
> > >  
> > >  
> > > If my observation is correct (I may be missing projects in my 
> > >     
> > workspace) 
> > > I was wondering are there any plans to hook up
> > > these functions in 
> > >     
> > future 
> > > versions of CDT or they are obsolete functions
> > > and I don't have to 
> > > implement them. 
> > >  
> > >  
> > >  
> > > Thanks a lot 
> > >  
> > > Dobrin Alexiev 
> > >  
> > > Texas Instruments 
> > >  
> > >  
> > >     
> >  
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Jerome CORRENOZ
STMicroelectronics/HPC/STS/IDTEC
mailto: jerome.correnoz@xxxxxx
+33 (0)4 76 58 68 42
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