Hey gang,
As I mentioned in the *DT bug report, I am playing with
extending the CDT to do Ada.
I spent a half an hour this morning setting things up and I was shocked at how
much I got going.
Here are a couple of screenshots of the Editor and Debugger
working with Ada.
I am using gnatmake in Standard Build as my builder and created a Make Target
to pass in the name of the Ada unit I wanted to build and the –g option
for debug symbols.
http://cdt.eclipse.org/ada/AdaEdit.png
http://cdt.eclipse.org/ada/AdaDebug.png
I created the content types for Ada’s ads and adb files and hooked up
the CEditor to those content types. Obviously the CEditor doesn’t know
about Ada keywords and there’s no CModel populated
for Ada things.
But I don’t see this being too much work, and is something we need to do
to properly support things like gcc specific keywords.
The biggest surprise was that breakpoints and the debugger
just worked. A lot of this has to do with the multi-lang capabilities of gdb
but also with the fact that the CDT’s debugger hasn’t forced
language on the debug session, at least from what I can tell. Great work debug
team!
Cheers,
Doug
