minutes ui meeting 20070321

[Elena Zannoni <elena dot zannoni at oracle dot com>]

Attendees:
Elena, Mark, Tim, Stan, Nurdin, Mike, cagney, Rick, Phil, Sami


fhpd demo (driven by script): commands shown were: list, help
(improved, as now you can get help on a specific command), up and
down, print, where, quit, assign. 
Run on non-optimized version of program: works ok on C example program.
Run on optimized version of program: doesn't find variables correctly
quite yet.

Caches dwarf info as it is retrieved/used.

Tab completion for help was added. It now adds a space after the
command name that was completed, so user can type options.  Also does
completion on things from the symbol table.

"print in<TAB>" caused exception.

"break 185"
"break"
caused another exception

break @file@lineno

assign int_21 0
caused a null pointer exception

break @/tmp/hpd.c@185
caused a null pointer exception
in this case breakpoint specified before specifying the program to run
fhdp on.

syntax was changed: cagney asks for justification from Tim: syntax
specify a # but parser interprets that as a comment, so it was changed
to @. Will be rectified once parser is fixed.

"break func_2, go, where" sequence works

Info printed when program stops at a breakpoint is being reworked to
be more legible.

where does the program stop if you say "run <program>". Not clear,
behavior seems to vary. 

list command on assembly program: arrayindexoutofbounds exception
generated


Observers: Andrew and Sami discussed (private discussion) that the
observers/process picker workflows need to be simplified. Was the
design reviewed on the list? Not yet. Please post the ideas for
everybody to understand.