CDT Monthly Call June 9 2021

[Jonah Graham <jonah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello folks,

Thank you all for coming. Here are the minutes - feel free to correct any of them if needed.

Minutes

• Bug 516371 - Async GDB communications
  • Torbjörn reports a regression in a gdbserver that doesn’t support Async causing commands to fail instead of being queued.
  • Workaround is to implement IGDBBackend and override useTargetAsync to return false
  • Action: Torbjörn file a bug / recommend a patch to make target async on/off more visible/changeable by users potentially?
• Bug 219040 - Global Variables View
  • Vinod shared his WIP on Global Variables and did a demo
  • Discuss debug vs. linker symbols
  • How to handle full path
  • Need a DMContext for Global Variables
• Display of float/double in hex
  • Action: Anton to file a bug on how hex display of float values is wrong
    • DONE Bug 574110 filed
• Discussion on secure context in some arm chips and how to do it the best way

Next Meeting

July 14 at 11am (Ottawa, Canada time)

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Jonah Graham
Kichwa Coders
www.kichwacoders.com

On Tue, 8 Jun 2021 at 09:39, Jonah Graham <jonah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello folks,

See you all on Wednesday for our monthly call. Feel free to add to the agenda - https://wiki.eclipse.org/CDT/calls.

CDT Monthly Call June 9 2021

• Location:  Zoom Meeting (full details below)
• Date: June 9, 2021 11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada) (Calendar/ICS)
• Agenda

1. Welcome and sign yourself in
2. Actions from last meeting
   • DONE Jonah: Send Torbjörn recent discussion about workspaces on macOS that he saw
     • See this conversation - not sure how relevant it actually is, but Alex Blewitt on the list suggests using -data and he is an active macOS user, so that implies it works at least sometimes.
   • DONE John: Add comment on Bug 572880 that hardware is available to test
   • William: Ask Renesas GDB experts to comment on GDB mailing list topic of restarted remote targets. Here are the links to the discussion so far:
     • https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb/2021-March/049285.html - initial message
     • https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27439 - bugzilla entry
     • https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb/2021-March/049331.html - reply
     • https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2021-March/177359.html - reply (on gdb-patches)
   • DONE Vinod: Create gerrits for global variables and lockup issues to solicit feedback. Please add Torbjörn to CC list.
   • DONE Torbjörn: ping Jonah on gerrit about clean
3. Any other business?

• Contact: cdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
• Reference: Last month meeting

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Jonah Graham
Kichwa Coders
www.kichwacoders.com