CDT/designs

Documented Components

• Build
  • MSVC Support Build and debug support for Microsoft's toolchain.
  • Managed Build System Support Information about the CDT Managed Build System
  • Working Set Configurations Improvements to the working-set configurations dialog
  • Headless build hints https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=186847
  • CDT/ScannerDiscovery61 Scanner Discovery
• Debug
  • DSF Debugger Services Framework
  • DSF-GDB Integration for Linux, various RTOS, Windows, Mac, emulator, etc.
  • EDC Eclipse Debugger for C/C++
  • Tracepoints DSF-GDB Design Proposal for Tracepoint support for C/C++.
  • CDT: Debug: Catchpoints support Design for Catchpoints support in CDT Debugger (framework)
  • DSF-GDB feature parity effort Wiki page keeping track of the effort to bring DSF-GDB to the level of CDI-GDB
  • DSF-GDB extensibility Wiki page keeping track of the community's needs with respect to extending DSF-GDB
  • Multi-Core/Multi-Context Wiki page focused on improving the workflow of multi-core debugging.
  • Enhanced Expressions Proposal Description of the "Enhanced Expressions" proposal.
  • Full GDB Console Description of the "Full GDB Console" feature.
• Misc
  • Older Design Documents Design documents from 2002-2005 (Scanner Configuration, Makefile Editor, etc.)

• Parser
  • Overview of the DOM parsers High level explanation of parsing in CDT.
  • C99/UPC parsers High level overview of the new C99/UPC parsers.
• Indexer
  • PDOM & Indexing The new indexer architecture for CDT 3.1.
• DOM/AST Tooling
  • Refactoring
  • Static Analysis Proposal for Static Analysis Framework for C/C++.
• Project Model
  • Project Model Proposal Bug for a new *DT "Project Model".
    • Core Design Document, UI Design Document
    • Core (.ppt), UI (.ppt)
  • EFS Support Transitioning CDT to full EFS integration
  • CDT:Flexible Project Structure This is a project to allow for more flexible project structures in Eclipse as required for many CDT users.
  • Project Templates: CDT Plug-in Developer Guide > Programmer's Guide > Project Template Engine
  • HowTo extend CDT with custom file templates
• API
  • CommandLauncher - overriding CDT command launch behaviour

Parser

• • Overview of the DOM parsers High level explanation of parsing in CDT.
  • C99/UPC parsers High level overview of the new C99/UPC parsers.

Indexer

• • PDOM & Indexing The new indexer architecture for CDT 3.1.

DOM/AST Tooling

• • Refactoring
  • Static Analysis Proposal for Static Analysis Framework for C/C++.

Project Model

• • Project Model Proposal Bug for a new *DT "Project Model".
    • Core Design Document, UI Design Document
    • Core (.ppt), UI (.ppt)
  • EFS Support Transitioning CDT to full EFS integration
  • CDT:Flexible Project Structure This is a project to allow for more flexible project structures in Eclipse as required for many CDT users.
  • Project Templates: CDT Plug-in Developer Guide > Programmer's Guide > Project Template Engine
  • HowTo_extend_CDT_with_custom_file_templates

Archived Design Documents

In addition the above documents, there are numerous archived design documents that can be explorer that may have some useful information, but may be out of date. See CDT/Archive/designs