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+KDEV4 Debugger:
+
+ - Launch framework
+
+ - On fly launch types -- "dbus call to connect to a given app"
+
+ - Advanced data visualization
+
+ - Customizable by the user
+
+ - Assembler display that's good
+
+ - Hex display that's good
+
+ - Register display that is good.
+
+ - Debugger scripts? Remembering and replaying a set of
+ commands?
+
+ - Debugger as a visualizer tool?
+
+
+TODO:
+
+ - Check gdb version at startup.
+
+ - P1:
+
+ - Breakpoints duplicated on editing.
+
+ - Global radix
+
+ - Hiding of static members.
+
+ - No horizonal scrollbar in the variables widget.
+
+ - Debugging optimized binaries
+
+ - Debugged application somtimes not killed.
+
+ - Fix moving breakpoints on editing files
+
+ - Pressing tab in memory range dialog modified the edited file.
+
+ - Testing stepping into code for which gdb can't find the file or fullname.
+ Test stepping (or stepi) into undebuggable code.
+
+ - Test files without debug info
+
+ - Reconsider fixed font in variable widget
+
+ - Investigate 'stop on shlib load breaking next" on Dario's project.
+
+ - Incoming bug reports:
+
+ - Check core files usage.
+
+ - Fix remote target dialog, which is confusing and requires
+ to specify tree scripts!
+
+ - Big projects
+
+ - Add support for other special types (STL)
+
+ - Breakpoints
+
+ - Add shortcuts to context menu.
+
+ - Add icons
+
+ - Status display column is just ugly
+
+ - Handle "out of breakpoints" message.
+
+ - Check that changing breakpoint when program is running works sanely.
+ Need to either disable breakpoints widget when debugger is busy, or
+ stop debugger when we add new breakpoint.
+
+ - Implement gdb -> KDevelop breakpoint addition for all existing
+ breakpoint types.
+
+
+
+ - For function breakpoints, the 'file' property of breakpoint from
+ gdb is not a fullname (gdb 6.4), so we don't find the file.
+
+ - For function breakpoints with gdb CVS, clicking on marker corresponding
+ to function breakpoint does not clear it, but adds a new one.
+
+ - "Immediately leave function" breakpoint type.
+
+
+ - Watchpoints redux:
+
+ - Fix status display for watchpoints
+
+ - Test loading of read watchpoints from session file.
+
+ - Change "toogle watchpoint" into checkbox.
+
+ - "Read watchpoint triggered" message disappears too soon.
+
+
+ - Fix up the mess with relative vs. full names of files for breakpoints.
+
+
+ UI cleanup:
+
+ - The dialog box on watchpoint hit draws slowly initially.
+
+ - Cntrl-Enter for "add watch".
+
+ - Close all opened thread when opening other?
+
+ - The dialog box shown in MI errors is ugly. Often, it contains names
+ of internal gdb functions, or no interest to outsiders.
+
+ - Should strip formatting when copying from gdb output window.
+
+ Console command interaction:
+
+ - Handle "Program exited" messages from CLI "continue".
+
+
+ Code cleanup:
+
+ - Rename FileLine to Code.
+
+ - Kill raw char* manipulation.
+
+ - Fix hardcoded color in framestack widget
+
+ - Kill 'trimmableItem'.
+
+ Minor tweaks:
+
+ - Need some "scope" for error reporting. Say, we can try to set invalid
+ breakpoint condition from session file, on debugger startup. Need to
+ produce message like:
+ "Error detected when setting condition for breakpoint 1",
+ not a pretty opaque error we get now.
+
+ - Highlight type changes in variable widget
+
+ - Highlight composite types changes?
+
+ - Test that modifying breakpoint while application is running works.
+
+ - If remembered expresion includes dereferences pointer as a child,
+ that child is still updated as we step.
+
+ - Error in 'finish' command (e.g. on the outer frame) hides the
+ current line indicator.
+
+ - Should disable the 'finish' command on the outer frame.
+
+ Optimizations:
+
+ - If we're in some function and looked at frame 0 and frame 1, and
+ then run "finish", we need to reuse VarFrameRoot for previous frame
+ 1, which now became frame 0, no need to recreate it. Generally, need
+ to preserve open/closed state of all variables for all scopes.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+BUGS/ISSUES found:
+
+ - "set edit off" breaks MI
+ - no stop reason for stop on shared library load
+ - using "interpreter mi -whatever" when already in MI
+ mode causes gdb to output two "^done" messages and
+ it confuses us.
+ - No support for "character" format in -data-evaluate-expression
+ or -var-set-format
+ - Some of the -stack* command operate on current frame unless one is
+ specified, but -stack-list-arguments will print all frames.
+
+ - Output of -thread-list-ids uses the following syntax
+
+ {thread-id="1",thread-id="2"}
+
+ which is neither tuple nor list.
+
+ - Pending breakpoits broken in MI.
+
+
+ - Varobj broken:
+
+ - When entering new scope, we need to issue -stack-list-locals
+ to get names of new varaibles in that scope.
+
+ - When stopping inside undebuggable code (say, on watchpoint hit),
+ -file-list-exec-source-file reports the last valid source file.
+
+ - It's not possible to find if intefiour is running or not.
+
+
+
+
+
+Advantages of MI
+
+
+- The information is easier to extract.
+
+ - For watchpoint, getting the old and new value of
+ watched expression for display is trivial. For CLI,
+ this is tricky and not done in current code.
+
+
+
+
+
+