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[cdt-debug-dev] Re: Debugging executables with no project

Hi Ken,

Great job! I really like your proposal.

We were just about to start doing something similar and I am so glad that you are already done it and you are working with CDT to get it in the main stream.

Here are my notes for the project-less proposal and the advanced breakpoints you mentioned in the power point slides:

Project-less debugging

  1. I noticed that making a really project-less debugging is not considered. What are the real problems with that? I was going to investigate that too because we have use cases in which the user just want to do low level debugging – stepping in assembly, stack frame with only assembly addresses, opening register and memory windows, having the console connected so they can control the debugging and do Std IO operations. None of these require OUT file or source files debugging. I was about to investigate what are the current limitations in CDT to achieve this but after I saw your comments looks like you already have done some investigation. Is it something with the platform that has to change or it is only CDT? Is anyone interested in achieving real project-less debugging?
  2. How does this integrate with different CDI debuggers? We are in a process of making our backend a CDI debugger and we have our launch type, lunch delegate, CDebugger, etc. Will you implementation hook up with a non GDB debuggers nicely? You mentioned that the last step of the debugger is creating a launch configuration. Is that configurable - can the user create our debugger’s launch configuration?
  3. What is the plan of getting this is CDT – is there attached patch we can look at?

Breakpoint extensions  

  1. For the advanced breakpoint you mentioned that one action is to execute a script. What scrip is that? Is it backend script only or it is something more generic? How will this fits with CDT?
  2. What are the plans for making the implementation of the advanced breakpoints available?

Regards

Dobrin Alexiev

Texas Instruments

Title: Debugging executables with no project

Hi,

At the recent CDT Contributors Summit I presented a proposal for some additions to let you easily debug executables even if you don't have a project that builds them.

Doug had posted the slides here:

http://download.eclipse.org/tools/cdt/docs/summit2005/Debugger_Features.ppt

and I've just attached a more detailed description of our proposal to:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=39640

Please take a look and send me any feedback, comments, or questions.

Thanks,

Ken Ryall
Nokia Developer Platform Tools

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