Review Request 121442: gdb: Refactoring of GDB/MI and state tracking (work in progress)

[Kevin Funk]

On Thursday 11 December 2014 07:52:13 Andreas Roth wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 December 2014 22:07:25 Nicolai Hähnle wrote:
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> > Thanks,
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> > Nicolai Hähnle
> 
> Hi,
> 
> lately i've seen Milian posts about the 'state of gdb in kdevelop' and my
> collegue and i had some unpleasant debugging experiences, so i dig a bit
> into the GDB plugin code of kdevelop and i did some minor changes:
> https://github.com/aroth-arsoft/kdevelop/tree/4.7-gdb-enhancements[1]
> 
> The changes i made so far are:
> - switch the assembler flavor from AT&T to Intel and back in the
> dissassembler widget - remove StackList commands from the queue when a new
> Exec command arrives. This reduces the wait time when stepping through the
> code quickly.
> - remove duplicated command in the queue. Mostly to eliminate duplicate
> variable updates. - show the pending command in the command queue. This is
> purely for debugging and to check which commands are currently pending.
> - slight improvements to memory view to use sizeof() when no size argument
> is given All the changes i've done so far are on the 4.7 branch because
> this is the version i'm using daily. I haven't fully tested all the changes
> and i'm not sure if these changes don't have any unwanted side-effects.
> I haven't had the time to bundle up all the changes and put them on the
> review board. Some of the changes need some adjustment with Nicolai
> modifications, but i think it would be worth the effort. This post is just
> to avoid duplicated work in getting the GDB plugin in a better shape.
> 
> Regards,
> Andreas

Awesome!

Would you be willing to post these patches to reviewboard so we can have a 
look at them?

Thanks for the hard work!

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