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Multicore Debug Workgroup Minutes of Meetings

January 14th, 2014

Attendees

1. Phil Mason (Broadcom)
2. Alvaro Sanchez-Leon (Ericsson)
3. Andreas From (Ericsson)
4. Marc Dumais (Ericsson)
5. Simon Marchi (Ericsson)
6. Xavier Raynaud (Kalray)
7. Mikhail Khodjaiants (Mentor)
8. Jeff Johnston (RedHat)
9. William Riley (Renesas)
10. Bill Swanson (Tilera)
11. Marc Khouzam (Ericsson)

Minutes

• CDT Summit/EclipseCon
  • Marc K to send an email to list to remind people so that others can make plan

• Ongoing work
  • New Launch UI
    • Progress continues
    • Single new launch config type allowing to start multiple processes together. It supports both starting a new process and attaching to one. It supports both local and remote
    • Difficulty in supporting older GDB versions. Currently based on 7.2 and higher
    • Issue with short lived processes that don't appear in the view
    • When to use 'remote' or 'extended-remote'
  • Environment Variables for Remote launch Bug 424436
    • Will allow to specify env vars when launching a remote application
    • Some limitations due to TM/RSE that we will have to deal with
  • Trace Control Enhancements Bug 390827
    • Review on-going. Meeting will held Jan 14th to discuss comments of review. Contact Marc Khouzam to join.
  • Show values returned from function calls Bug 341731
  • Mutlicore Visualizer with Parallella
    • New plugin extending multicore visualizer
    • both canvas and model have been updated for the Parallella
  • Multi-process memory views Bug 250323
    • Patch accepted, will be committed today
  • Dynamic Printf Bug 400268
  • Stand-alone CDT debugger
    • Marc K has tried it out. Looks great but a couple of comments communicated to Jeff
    • Start script will be simplified
    • "Customize perspective..." menu will be added
    • Will be shown at the CDT Summit
    • Some flags will be added to the command-line to specify launch option
    • No need to create a project or a launch config.
    • Should we still show the launch config stuff? Yes, but most won't even look at it.
    • Improvement over Insight (amongst others) of supporting the indexer through a build log
    • Planned for Luna
    • Need to discuss with Doug about how to make this available

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