Multicore Debug Workgroup Minutes of Meetings

March 17th, 2015

Summary of CDT Summit/CDT Day/EclipseCon
- Java 8
- do we do it on master, it will break java 7, it should be done on the 9_0 branch
- email to the list
cdt 9.0 for Mars+1 release (June 2016)
- 9_0 branch where API breaking changes are allowed
Doug plans to split out native plugins into their own git repo and build them separately to provide them to others that should not depend on CDT
CDT 8.7 plans
- Grouping feature to support
  - Marc K has started looking at this again, based on the work from TI
- Memory view fixes/improvements
  - Alvaro working on this
- VarObjects for Registers would be interesting.
  - Currently we assume every register is under a group, but it may not be the right thing to do
Enhancement bug written to LaunchBar allowing to handle multiple launches/launch group http://eclip.se/462372
- Mikhail has a patch that removes some duplications in the debug view in the case of the launch group
Patches needing review
- A couple of breakpoint patches from Mikhail
- William submitted a patch for managed build, will email the list to get noticed

CDT Summit/CDT Day
- Planning continues. 10 attendees have signed up so far. Based on last year, we expect more though
CDT 8.6 release
- Joint testing to be done
- We hope to have it done by the end of this week
- Everything is on track for the release
Next CDT release to be 8.7
- Less than two months left until API freeze for Mars, and it does not seem anyone has plans or needs to break the API
- Doug posted to the list to see if there was any concerns about that
CDT for Mars
- work continues for o.e.remote
- LaunchBar is being updated to follow o.e.remote new APIs
- Autotools will need to be updated as well
- Still planning on removing CDT's dependency to RSE for Mars (Remote Debug launch)
- Connections should not be part of launch configuration as connections are user-specific. Instead using an OSGI service will be better.
FindBugs
- Marc to post a patch to enable running FindBugs and PMD as a build profile.
- We can have the nightly build use that profile and see if that proves valuable.
- This will increase the build by about 20 minutes but provide valuable feedback
- The verify job will not run FindBugs
Visual Studio support contribution
- Guy B offered to contribute a Visual Studio integration to CDT
- Sounds like it can be interesting to some.
- Guy was asked to open a bug to discuss the contribution process

CDT Summit/CDT Day
- CDT Summit wiki. Please sign up.
- CDT Day planned. 7 talks on different topics related to CDT
CDT 8.6 anything missing?
- Nothing major planned for the last week
Register grouping committed. https://wiki.eclipse.org/CDT/User/NewIn86#Register_grouping
- VarObjects for Registers would be interesting.
- If time allows, Mikhail may have a look again.
All Debug JUnit tests running on HIPP using all of GDB >= 7.1
- Local tests all pass: https://hudson.eclipse.org/cdt/job/debug-tests-master-all-gdb-versions/
- Remote tests down to 7 failures: https://hudson.eclipse.org/cdt/job/debug-remote-tests-master-all-gdb-versions/
Older GDB support
- In some cases, probably with more recent GCCs, GDB 7.0 cannot step over printf (and maybe other issues)
- We discussed and approved only supporting GDB 7.1 and higher
- We won't remove the code supporting older GDBs but we won't work on making those work
- We will announce in N&N and make it part of the 8.6 review record
SWTBot testing for Debug/CDT https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/35988/
- Proof of concept that provides one test.
- Marc K to review and commit very soon to get the infrastructure in
LaunchBar will be part of Mars
- Doug will work on a CDT remote launch using o.e.remote
- Doug got request to have a UI for multiple launches working with the launch bar
Launch UI
- Mikhail has started work on it again