Re: Roadmap beginnings

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>]

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