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Re: Roadmap beginnings
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:33:48AM -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
> Thanks in particular for your comments on the particular C++ work
> items. I think those combined form a pretty powerful argument.
> There's still some unaddressed though:
>
> * Multi-process. I've seen some hints on the list that this is
> coming, but not enough info to really understand. This seems like
> something that would affect many areas -- there would seem to be
> challenges from the CLI on down.
Yes. I can say that CodeSourcery is working on this, and I fully
expect to have an implementation posted by ... say ... mid-October.
Focus is likely to be on MI, though it will certainly be somehow
CLI-accessible. We plan to do the work (or at least the design) in
public; if anyone wants to help...
> * Scalability to lots of shared libraries. This is tied into the
> above.
I have some general thoughts about this, but nothing concrete.
> Dodji sent me some interesting links to totalview docs. They do seem
> to have a lot of additional core functionality -- process-group stuff
> similar to what HPD specifies, the ability to evaluate C/Fortran/asm
> code fragments (nice!), memory debugging (overflows, bad free calls,
> etc), tracepoints.
One thing that might benefit GDB is for someone to sit down and come
up with a few new-approach-to-debugging features like these. Stick
them up on the wiki or something...
A nice thing about new features is that they're shiny, a.k.a. a good
draw-in for new contributors.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery