[cdt-dev] Question about the "GDB" preference page

[Andy Jin <AJin@xxxxxxx>]

I am working on incorporating Pretty Printing in QNX Momentics. We bundle CDT 8.0.1.

From looking at the code, org.eclipse.cdt.dsf.gdb.ui plugins contribute the "GDB" preference page which includes settings for Pretty Printing.

To try it out, I download the Eclipse CPP package for Indigo SR1. 

However I don't see this preference page under "C/C++ -> Debug". Only after I run debug once using DSF, this page shows up.

This is a surprised behaviour. This preference page is contributed statically from the plugin.xml so it should show up whenever the preferences dialog is open, it should not depend on the lazy loading of the plugins.

Maybe I miss something?

Thanks,

Andy