Assembler view

[Vladimir Prus]

[I CC: Johannes Sixt, the developer of kdbg]

On Thursday 02 June 2005 11:06, Hamish Rodda wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 03:33 pm, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> > On Wednesday 01 June 2005 21:13, Amilcar do Carmo Lucas wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 01 June 2005 17:35, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > the kdbg debugger has a nice feature: each source line has a "+" near
> > > > it, and clicking on "+" shows asm source for that C++ source line.
> > > > (See http://zigzag.cs.msu.su/~ghost/asm_view.png for a snapshot).
> > > >
> > > > Anybody knows if it is possible to implement the same in KDevelop?
> > >
> > > You could try to convince the kdbg developer to port it to the new
> > > KDevelop platform:
> > > http://www.kdevelop.org/HEAD/doc/platform/html/index.html
> >
> > 1. Does that sound like a desirable thing to main developers? I mean,
> > throwing out kdevelop's current debugger support and using kdbg instead?
> > If that's the universal opinion, then I should not spend time on current
> > debugger support.
>
> I think he meant to port the relevant parts of the code, not replace our
> support in whole.

That would be great. Johannes, can you tell about those plans? What exactly
did you plan to port?

> > 2. The problem is that kdevelop uses Kate for text editor, so the primary
> >    question is whether Kate allows to add such expandable assembler
> >    annotations in an easy way. Even if kdbg is converted into kdev plugin
> > -- I'd need to show assembler in the same windows where the text is.
>
> There's a very good chance that kate for kde 4 will either have this, or
> something with the equivalent capability.  I'm interested in this so that
> we can have tight integration with kcachegrind.

Ok, KDE4 is not so near future but probably I can wait. 

- Volodya