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Bug 358355

Summary:	Binutils enhancement for cross-platform development
Product:	[Tools] CDT	Reporter:	Xavier Raynaud <xraynaud>
Component:	cdt-core	Assignee:	Project Inbox <cdt-core-inbox>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:	Jonah Graham <jonah>
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	yevshif
Version:	8.0
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
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Description Xavier Raynaud

2011-09-21 03:34:35 EDT

Build Identifier: 20110218-0911

Hi,

In the context of LinuxTools project (http://www.eclipse.org/linuxtools/), I've developed 2 plugins to visualize gprof and gcov results in eclipse.
These 2 plugins depends on binutils "addr2line", "c++filt", ...

There is a interesting particularity with these 2 plugins: it supports cross-platform binutils, thanks to an extension point (see http://git.eclipse.org/c/linuxtools/org.eclipse.linuxtools.git/tree/profiling/org.eclipse.linuxtools.binutils)

For example, thanks to this extension point, it's possible to use "my-esoteric-addr2line" instead of "addr2line" for a particular binary CPU type.

Do you think it can be interesting to push this extension point (or something similar) in CDT core ?

Reproducible: Always