What's missing for 4.0

[Niko Sams]

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 21:11, Kishore <kitts.mailinglists at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 17 Sep 2009 11:51:50 pm Andreas Pakulat wrote:
>> > 1. The debugger is essentially unusable, even for local debugging (and
>> > I really need remote debugging facilities). I realize that that's
>> > being worked on.
>>
>> I'm not sure wether remote debugging will make it into 4.0.
>>
>
> Is remote debugging really very different? at least if it is using gdb? My
> daily work is with embedded systems and the only difference between them is in
> the way i launch gdb. For native apps, i execute "gdb path/to/app" and with
> remote system "arm-none-eabi-gdb -x path/to/gdbinit path/to/app".
>
> Rest is all the same it seems. I recently tried debugging a remote target
> using kdev4 and it did not work. I did not explore further but it does not
> seem like a great deal as long as one can configure the gdb executable and
> some launch parameters. I did try that in the gdb configuration, but it did
> not seems to work and i don't know why. It works fine in kdev3.
Then send us patches...

Niko