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CDT/Archive/planning/3.1
Please add your CDT 3.1 plan items to this page.
The Debugger Plan Items
The 3.1 plan below is a draft in progress - input from the community is welcome.
Eclipse Debug Platform improvements
Asynchronous API
Provide asynchronous adapters for the CDT debug elements Bugzilla #106205.
Pluggable view update policies
Investigate the possibilities and advantages of the pluggable update policies feature for CDT Bugzilla #104111.
Debug context management
Investigate the advantages of the new debug context management for CDT.
CDT UI
Modules and Signals views
Replace the current viewer by the asynchronous tabletree viewer.
Signals view
Move to the gdb/MI UI.
Disassembly view
Improve the disassembly view Bugzilla #115786, Bugzilla #27239, Bugzilla #27892.
Launcher
Projectless debugging
Allow to debug executables built outside of CDT Bugzilla #39640.
CDI
Add modularity
The idea is to allow clients to contribute parts to CDI that overwrite the default implementation.
Support for modules
The modules view information should be retrieved from the backend Bugzilla #102164.
Support for symbol tables
The symbol table related information should be queried from the backend Bugzilla #91771.
Source lookup support
The list of required source files and directories should be provided by the backend Bugzilla #41529.
gdb/MI
Modified/extended gdb/MI protocols
Add an extension point to contribute command factories Bugzilla #114793.
Special launch configuration type for GDB Server
Add a separate launch configuration type for GDB Server instead of supporting it as a special debugger Bugzilla #79458.
Verbose mode for gdb console
Add an option to display the gdb trace in the console Bugzilla #113107.