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  2. QTCREATORBUG-2039

Trace point support in Qt Creator's debugger

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    • Suggestion
    • Resolution: Unresolved
    • P2: Important
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    • Qt Creator 2.0.0
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    • Windows 7, Qt Creator 2.0.0, MSVC 2008 w/ CDB

    Description

      Trace point support would be very handy for trying to figure out how a particular piece of code is behaving without the need to sprinkle qDebug() all over the place (and possibly changing the timing behavior of the code in question).

      Here's a snippet from the discussion I had on IRC:

      [10:38am] X: bhughes: be a bit more specific what exactly you need and you'll get it
      [10:38am] X: bhughes: especially a hint or two on what you expect the UI to look like would be welcome
      [10:39am] bhughes: X: essentially this is what i want: http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/DeveloperTools/gdb/gdb/gdb_11.html
      [10:40am] bhughes: the UI is minimal, just a Fn key to toggle a trace point on a specific line (like F9 does for breakpoints)
      [10:40am] bhughes: might be good to show trace points in the break point list too
      [10:43am] X: bhughes: that's the input side of the ui. I guess you want to see the output of the trace experiment somewhere, too
      [10:43am] bhughes: yeh
      [10:43am] X: so, how should this look like?
      [10:43am] bhughes: i don't remember how VS does it... i think it puts in the application output pane
      [10:44am] X: ok. feel free to create a P2 task
      [10:45am] X: I had it on the radar for a while anyway, but so far nobody asked

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            bhughes Bradley T. Hughes (closed Nokia Identity) (Inactive)
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