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Overview

Features

Version support

• GDB 6.7+

Launching

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• Launch Configurations
  • Launch an application on local host
  • Attach to a running process
  • Launch an application on a remote host
• GDB Debugger options
  • Non-stop mode selection

Non-stop mode multi-threaded debugging support

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Multi-process Debugging

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CLI Console

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Manual Test Procedures

GDB Basic Sanity Test

• 1. Check out and build the sanity test project from /cvsroot/dsdp/org.eclipse.dd.dsf/tests/SanityTest
  2. Launch the DSF debugger with break at main
  3. Follow instructions in the test.

Launching

• Perspective
  1. In Preferences->Run/Debug->Perspectives, make sure that at least one perspective change option is set to prompt.
  2. Set the java or c++ perspective
  3. Launch a DSF program
     • Verify that there is a prompt to switch perspective to Debug, Answer yes
     • Verify the perspective switches
• Expanding after launch
  1. • Verify from the above test that the Debug view has a selection to the top-most thread
  2. Close Debug view
  3. Open Debug view
  4. Verify that the Debug view has a selection to the top-most thread
• Break on main
  1. Set a valid break-on-main symbol, and launch.
     • Check: the program breaks at the correct location.
  2. Set an invalid break-on-main symbol, and launch.
     • Check: the launch should fail with an error from creating the break-on-main breakpoint
  3. Set a break-on-main symbol that is not reachable by the program, but the program continues running, and launch.
     • Check: the launch should complete as if there was no break-on-main symbol set.
  4. Set a break-on-main symbol that is not reachable by the program, but and the program exits quickly.
     • Check: the launch should complete and the program should run and terminate normally.
• Remote Launch
  1. Start a gdbserver session with the binary of the eclipse C++ project
  2. Use the DSF Remote launch to connect to that gdbserver
     • Verify that the debugging session is the same as a local debugging session
     • Verify that the Restart button is grayed out
• Local Attach Launch
  1. Start the binary of your project outside of eclipse (this binary should take a long time to execute to give you enough time to attach to it)
  2. Use the DSF Attach to Local applicaiton launch
     • Verify that a popup window prompts for the process to attach to
  3. Select the binary you started
     • Verify that the debugging session is the same as a local debugging session
     • Verify that the Restart button is grayed out
     • Verify that the output of the binary remains on the terminal where it was started
• Remote Attach Launch
  1. Start a gdbserver session with the --multi flag and no binary
  2. Start the binary of your project outside of eclipse (this binary should take a long time to execute to give you enough time to attach to it)
  3. Use the DSF Attach launch to connect to that gdbserver using the 'gdbserver Debugger' type
     • Verify that a popup window prompts for the process pid to attach to (no list)
     • Put in the pid of the binary you started
     • Verify that the debugging session is the same as a local debugging session
     • Verify that the Restart button is grayed out
     • Verify that the output of the binary remains on the terminal where it was started
• Output
  1. Launch a local debug session
  2. Step the program to execute a couple of instructions that have a printf
     • Verify that the output of the program is properly seen in a separate console.
• Restart
  1. Launch a local debug session
  2. Step the program to execute a couple of instructions
  3. Press the Restart button and verify that the program restarts from the beginning
     • Verify also that the "Break on main option is still respected on the restart
     • Verify also that the output of the program is properly seen in a separate console.