CDT/Archive/cdt-debug-feature-parity-effort

Email discussions (February 2010) about the CDT's default debugger integration has led to the fact that it would be nice to switch the default to DSF-GDB for Helios, but that we need to get closer to feature-parity with CDI-GDB.

We also agree that new debugging features are not going to be done for CDI, so it would be good to start building momentum for DSF-GDB so as to get more contributions and get the whole CDT debugging to continue getting more new features. This will also benefit any DSF-based integration as DSF will be given more attention.

So, we are attempting to resolve the feature-parity bugs tagged [cdi]. This page documents which bugs are still open and if anyone has offered to tackle them.

Total list of bugs for feature-parity

List of bugs with [cdi] tag that are still open is here

Bugs still to be taken by someone

• Bug 280607 [debug view][commands] CLIInfoThreadsInfo parsing tied to LWP
• Bug 280631 [debug view] Thread list in Debug view not updated with non-Linux target
• Bug 248587 [breakpoints][cdi] Support "Event' Breakpoints.
• Bug 231883 [console][cdi] Inferior does not print to console when a PTY is not available
• Bug 235747 [registers][cdi] Allow user to edit the register groups.
• Bug 237560 [variables][cdi] Ehance variables view for feature parity with CDT.
• Bug 249223 [signals][cdi] Add support for "Resume without signal" action.

I believe the ones below are not show-stoppers and therefore lower priority, but not everyone may agree with this evaluation:

• Bug 264895 [console][cdi] Visible console should match debug selection
• Bug 267209 [launch][cdi] Refresh project when launch process terminates
• Bug 271795 [debug view] [cdi] Inferior should be visible, and shown terminated in post mortem launch
• Bug 293832 [variables][cdi] wrong display of variable values with GDB DSF
• Bug 298336 [expressions] [cdi] Expression view flickers when switching between stack frames

Bugs people have already said they will work on

John Cortell (Freescale)

• Bug 248606 [menu][breakpoints][cdi] Add support for toggling watchpoints in the variables and expressions views.
• Bug 248595 [breakpoints][cdi] - Add support pending breakpoints introduced in GDB 6.8.
• Bug 249220 [signals][cdi] Add support for the Signals view.
• Bug 248627 [debug view] [cdi] Add an option to show full paths for the stack frame source location.

(This was also taken by Pawel Piech)

Randy Rohrbach (Windriver)

• Bug 207582 [variables][expressions][cdi] In views, chirldren of arrays should be grouped when more than 100
• Bug 219203 [variables][cdi] Variables view should allow variables to be cast to a type.

Pawel Piech (Windriver)

• Bug 219040 [variables][cdi] Variables view should show globals (or should it?)
• Bug 269101 [variables][cdi] In no-columns mode, it's impossible to change the a variable's value.
• Bug 219202 [variables][cdi] Variables view should use icons to represent types.
• Bug 159958 [symbols][cdi] Integrate symbols service with CDT modules view.
• Bug 248627 [debug view] [cdi] Add an option to show full paths for the stack frame source location.

(This was also taken by John Cortell)

Marc-Andre Laperle (student*)

• Bug 274951 [cdi] Add Watch action to C/C++ Editor
• Bug 269927 [console] [cdi] Allow to save console to a file

(* Please don't change)

Marc Khouzam (Ericsson)

• Bug 242943 [breakpoints] [cdi] While GDB is running, we cannot make breakpoint commands
• Bug 248610 [menu][memory][cdi] Add a menu action to open memory view for a given variable.
• Bug 249162 [run control][cdi] Add support for "Set PC to here" operation.
• Bug 249165 [run control][cdi] Add support for "Resume at Line" action
• Bug 249169 [detail][cdi] Add support for alternative expression evaluation in detail pane.
• Bug 202354 [launch][cdi] Support Environment tab in local launch
• Bug 275238 [debugger][cdi] Pretty print stl gdb and eclipse cdt don't play well

Andy Jin (QNX)

• Bug 248593 [launch][cdi] Add a JTAG-specific launch.

Navid Mehregani (Texas Instruments)

• Bug 300096 [expressions][run control][cdi] "DSF is missing certain debug actions from editor's context menu"