CDT/Archive/cdt-debug-dsf

Features

Debug view

• Launching
  • Debug perspective activation on launch
  • Debug view activated on breakpoint hit
  • Initial selection after launch
• Debug Targe' element
  • Debug Target label
  • Resume/suspend operations
  • Terminating
  • Target program completion and exit handling
• Thread element
  • Thread label
  • Resume/suspend operations
  • Step operations
  • Multi-threaded programs
  • Manual thread refresh mode
• Stack Frame element
  • Frame label
  • Selection upon suspend
  • Resume/suspend operations
  • Step operations
  • Displaying limited number of frames
    • Preference
    • Viewing additional trace using double-click/context menu
• Source Display
  • Source display upon stack frame selection
  • Stepping through different files
• Fast stepping
  • Stepping fast by holding down the F5 key
    • The Instruction Pointer in the editor should be painted after every step
    • The line high-lighting selection in the editor should disappear until stepping slows down
  • Minimum step interval preference
  • Delay stepping to update views preference

Variables view

• Variables display
  • Variable name, address, type, value
  • Complex variables (with child elements)
  • Arrays
  • Changing variable value
• Variables for active stack frame, thread, debug target

Registers view

• Register Group
  • Label: name, description
• Register
  • Label: name, type, description, value
  • Editing values
• Bit Field: name, type, description, value
  • Editing
  • Mnemonics: viewing, selecting

Expressions view

• Adding new expressions
  • Using context menu in variables view, registers view, editor
  • Using drag and drop
  • By typing in expression into the "New Expression" entry.
  • Using the New Expression dialog.
• Expressions with child elements
• Removing expressions
  • Preserving expanded state of elements when removing.
  • Using "Remove All"
• Editing expressions
  • In-line
  • Using dialog
• Editing expression values
  • Editor type (text vs. drop down, etc.) as dictated by the expression type
  • Updates the corresponding value in other views
  • Values update as they are modified in other views

Modules view

• Labels
• Detail pane info (type, symbols loaded, file, base address, size).

All Variables views (variables, registers, expressions)

• Default number format
• Updating
  • When stepping
  • When changing selection in Debug view

Update modes (variables, registers, expressions)

• Visibility controlled using the Debug Update Policies action set
• Selecting a mode
  • Disabled when no DSF debug session active
  • Persisted across debug sessions, workbench sessions.
• Automatic mode
• Manual mode
• Breakpoint hit mode
• Refresh Action
  • Updates the change history
• Refresh All

Number Format Detail Pane

• Variables name and type
• Value shown in all available formats