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Multicore Debug Workgroup Minutes of Meetings
February 11th, 2014
Attendees
- Marc Dumais (Ericsson)
- Teodor Madan (Freescale)
- Mikhail Khodjaiants (Mentor)
- Doug Schaefer (QNX)
- Jeff Johnston (RedHat)
- William Riley (Renesas)
- Marc Khouzam (Ericsson)
Minutes
- CDT Summit/EclipseCon
- Ongoing work
- New Launch UI
- Working solution available!
- Ready to discuss some implementation detail
- Specific to CDT at the moment but could be generalized
- Main advantage is the support for multi-process
- Trace Control Enhancements Bug 390827
- Feature committed! See New and Noteworthy for details.
- It would be nice to move some of the new widgets to a common area such as o.e.cdt.debug.ui
- Was not tested on Windows. If someone can try it and report, that would be useful
- Setting Hardware Breakpoint from the UI Bug 332993
- new bug opened to allow to change bp type at creation or after (based on Mikhail's work) Bug 427898
- patch posted in bugzilla but will be posted to Gerrit
- do we need the first proposal too? It's value is to set a default type. Let's focus on first contribution and then discuss the original one.
- Show values returned from function calls Bug 341731
- Reviewed by Marc-Andre and updated accordingly
- Dynamic Printf Bug 400268
- Planned for Luna.
- GDB 7.7 much more stable. Still some issue but not blocking
- Will be demoed at CDT Summit
- Patch is large but mostly a copy of Tracepoints. Important changes are much smaller.
- Multicore Visualizer with Parallella
- gdb stub for Parallella is being updated to provide CDT with the necessary information
- Will be demoed at EclipseCon
- Stand-alone CDT debugger
- Customize perspective support added (needed for Reverse Debug and Tracepoints)
- Documentation has been updated
- Will be demoed at CDT Summit
- Was presented to GDB community and was well received, with more comments expected
- New Launch UI
January 14th, 2014
Attendees
- Phil Mason (Broadcom)
- Alvaro Sanchez-Leon (Ericsson)
- Andreas From (Ericsson)
- Marc Dumais (Ericsson)
- Simon Marchi (Ericsson)
- Xavier Raynaud (Kalray)
- Mikhail Khodjaiants (Mentor)
- Jeff Johnston (RedHat)
- William Riley (Renesas)
- Bill Swanson (Tilera)
- 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
- New Launch UI
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