CDT/Archive/designs

Note: The contents of this page refer to design documents reflecting work in progress of Eclipse CDT features and for some features that have never been implemented. Therefore they may not refer to the current state of CDT.

Documented Components

• Build
  • MSVC Support Build and debug support for Microsoft's toolchain.
  • Managed Build System Support Information about the CDT Managed Build System
  • Working Set Configurations Improvements to the working-set configurations dialog
  • Headless build hints https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=186847
  • CDT/ScannerDiscovery61 Scanner Discovery
• Debug
  • DSF Debugger Services Framework
  • DSF-GDB Integration for Linux, various RTOS, Windows, Mac, emulator, etc.
  • EDC Eclipse Debugger for C/C++
  • Tracepoints DSF-GDB Design Proposal for Tracepoint support for C/C++.
  • CDT: Debug: Catchpoints support Design for Catchpoints support in CDT Debugger (framework)
  • DSF-GDB feature parity effort Wiki page keeping track of the effort to bring DSF-GDB to the level of CDI-GDB
  • DSF-GDB extensibility Wiki page keeping track of the community's needs with respect to extending DSF-GDB
  • Multi-Core/Multi-Context Wiki page focused on improving the workflow of multi-core debugging.
  • Enhanced Expressions Proposal Description of the "Enhanced Expressions" proposal.
  • Full GDB Console Description of the "Full GDB Console" feature.
• Misc
  • Older Design Documents Design documents from 2002-2005 (Scanner Configuration, Makefile Editor, etc.)

• Parser
  • Overview of the DOM parsers High level explanation of parsing in CDT.
  • C99/UPC parsers High level overview of the new C99/UPC parsers.
• Indexer
  • PDOM & Indexing The new indexer architecture for CDT 3.1.
• DOM/AST Tooling
  • Refactoring
  • Static Analysis Proposal for Static Analysis Framework for C/C++.
• Project Model
  • Project Model Proposal Bug for a new *DT "Project Model".
    • Core Design Document, UI Design Document
    • Core (.ppt), UI (.ppt)
  • EFS Support Transitioning CDT to full EFS integration
  • CDT:Flexible Project Structure This is a project to allow for more flexible project structures in Eclipse as required for many CDT users.
  • Project Templates: CDT Plug-in Developer Guide > Programmer's Guide > Project Template Engine
  • HowTo extend CDT with custom file templates
• API
  • CommandLauncher - overriding CDT command launch behaviour

All Components

Components
CDT/cdt-build
CDT/cdt-build-managed
CDT/cdt-core	Parsers, Index, Project Model, Core functionality
CDT/cdt-debug	Common debugger components, including: breakpoints, launch UI, editor integration, etc.
CDT/cdt-debug-cdi	API and framework for integrating debuggers with Eclipse, modeled after the JDI API in java tools.
CDT/cdt-debug-cdi-gdb	Integration of GDB debugger using the CDI framework.
CDT/cdt-debug-dsf	Alternative API and framework for integrating debuggers with Eclipse.
CDT/cdt-debug-dsf-gdb	Integration of GDB debugger using the DSF framework.
CDT/cdt-doc
CDT/cdt-editor
CDT/cdt-indexer
CDT/cdt-other
CDT/cdt-parser
CDT/cdt-refactoring
CDT/cdt-releng
CDT/cdt-source-nav
CDT/cdt-qt	Support for Qt Developers, both C++ and QML.