What is New in CDT 5
Java 5.0+ JRE is required
CDT 5.0 requires using the Java 5.0 or later JRE.
Editor
| Code and File Templates
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User-definable templates are now available and are used to populate new files.
Code/File templates are used in the New Class and New Source/Header File wizards
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New preference page C/C++ > Code Style > Code Templates
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| New generic wizard: File from Template
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| Outline for assembly files |
The outline view is now populated when editing assembly files. |
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| Code formatter improvements
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| Content Assist improvements
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| Doxygen editor support (plus framework)
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Auto-generation of tags and a pluggable framework for other documentation tools is now available.
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178386
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| Mark Occurrences
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Highlights where the selected identifier occurs elsewhere in the editor.
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159812
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| Folding of compound statements |
174597 (contributed by Elazar Leibovich)
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| Macro expansion hover and exploration tool |
Description |
23540
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| Spell Checking |
Spell-checking is now available and enabled by default.
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190512
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| Scalability mode |
The editor can now be opened with reduced functionality when working with very large files.
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226955
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| Visual Studio key bindings |
You can now configure the IDE to recognize Visual Studio key bindings
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209218
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Navigation and Search
| Open Declaration
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| Operators |
93281
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| Empty macros |
198649
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| From elements in the Outline View |
222721
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| From within preprocessing statements |
215906
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| From arguments to a macro expansion |
208300
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| Open Element
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| Support for static functions/variables |
193057
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| Improvements to the Open Element dialog |
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| Search
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| Static functions/variables |
196414
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| Search for macros |
156561
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| Search for references of local variables |
151334
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| Search view usability improvements |
212166
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Call Hierarchy
| Read/Write decorators |
Icon decorator to show read and write-access for variables |
156692
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| Polymorphic method calls |
Support for polymorphic method calls (virtual methods) |
156689
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Refactoring
| Infrastructure |
| Modelling transformations on the AST |
214334
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| Filtering context-menu based on selection |
60249
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| Generate Getter Setters |
226658
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| Hide Method |
226490
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| Implement Method |
226646
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| Extract Constant |
181493
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| Extract Function |
226484
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| Maintenance of rename-refactoring |
220741
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Indexer
| Improved Accuracy
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| Projects with c and c++ files |
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| Handling static variables/functions defined in a header |
180305
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| Support for unnamed namespaces |
162226
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| Support for nested anonymous struct members |
216791
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| Support for namespace composition |
200673
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| Support for using declarations |
216527
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| Support for long long |
209049
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| Support for asm labels |
226121
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| Support for ommitted operands in conditional expressions |
212905
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| Support for case-declarations with ranges |
211882
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| Improved Performance
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| Performance improvement when using large include search paths |
225302
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| Smaller index databases |
210392
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| Entirely new Preprocessor
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| Comment tokens ignored when on same line as directive |
192546
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| ASCII control characters in C/C++ files are flagged as errors |
106344
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| Support for alternate keywords (or, ...) |
187776
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| Scanner incorrectly handles #include line with macro |
156990
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| Unreported references to macros when passed as argument to another macro |
94673
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| Fix the location concept for the AST |
202459
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| Support for trigraphs and digraphs |
64993
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| Others |
145270 117029, 210344, 190884, 188855, 180140, 122891, 120472, 116962, 90956, 90978
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| Improved Infrastructure
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| Visual indication of indexer status |
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| Maintenance |
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104706, 162470, 168924, 185343, 203170, 209682, 209813, 210730, 211457, 211603, 213029, 213287, 213861, 214017, 214146, 215629, 215642, 217102, 217271, 217414, 209582, 218389, 219424, 219834, 221796, 222026, 223020, 223777, 226274, 226492, 226877, 227082, 227085, 227110, 227122, 227393, 228118, 228422, 228504, 229917, 229218, 229917, 231744, 232086, 233511
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Projects & Build
| Project Properties |
Improved usability of Project Properties pages |
228953, 228958, 229771
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| Make target locations |
Make targets at the project level are built in the project build directory |
176906.
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Debug
| Executables View |
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182388
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| Event breakpoints |
Added gdb catchpoints (event breakpoints) support |
226689
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