Code::Blocks Forums

Developer forums (C::B DEVELOPMENT STRICTLY!) => Plugins development => Topic started by: rickg22 on October 31, 2005, 05:08:41 pm

Title: Idea for improving the GDB plugin
Post by: rickg22 on October 31, 2005, 05:08:41 pm

This idea came to me as I was debugging the debugger (lol :P ) plugin. There's usually the construct

Code

cmd << _T("something") << variable << _T("something")

and I was wondering...

Why not store those commands in a hash table? Templated, that is. Like:

Code

myhashtable["breakpoint"] = _T("something {$varname} something")

like it's done with the compiler plugin? In this case, $varname would be one of many predefined variables. (Or even better, store those in an XML file! )

I'm sure this would enable us to add support for other debuggers besides gdb.

What do you think?

Title: Re: Idea for improving the GDB plugin
Post by: mandrav on October 31, 2005, 10:10:11 pm

Well, I purposely have stalled further improvements on the debugger plugin while waiting for the compiler discussion to start. Many design decisions will affect/apply-to the debugger plugin also so it makes sense to wait...

Quote

I'm sure this would enable us to add support for other debuggers besides gdb.

Don't think that this is trivial. From what I recall while researching MS's cdb.exe, it was difficult to even get the current instruction's line number and source file...

Title: Re: Idea for improving the GDB plugin
Post by: rickg22 on October 31, 2005, 10:24:54 pm

I see... well, it's a start.

Anyway, where's the VC debugger docs?

Title: Re: Idea for improving the GDB plugin
Post by: mandrav on October 31, 2005, 11:06:30 pm

Install "Microsoft Debugging Tools for Windows" and you 'll find it there ;)