Advanced Use of DDD

[Darryl Koivisto]

Hi DDD,

 

I work at Cadence Design in Silicon Valley, and have a customer

that would like us to use DDD to debug their SystemC model (C++

based modeling language).  Our modeling tool currently uses DDD

on top of GDB for a single target, same host (native), so we are

familiar with DDD.

 

Our customer would like the target system to open up source code

for several SystemC modules (read separate files) in parallel,

once a breakpoint has been set.  The customer is running a hardware

based SystemC model that actually executes in several source code

files at the same time, so he wants to see what is executing.  The

customer provides an intermediate file that identifies the source

code file path/name and line number information.  So, once a source

code file encounters a breakpoint in the target, the customer would

like DDD to open up multiple DDD source files that are effected,

based on the intermediate file (identifies the other source code

files to open by path/name, and the line number).  It is simple

in one sense, and complex in another.

 

Does the DDD staff think this is --

 

(1) Feasible with the existing DDD, meaning opening several source

code files for a single breakpoint? 

 

(2) Feasible with DDD plus some customization code, or script shell?

 

(3) Not feasible with the current version of DDD?

 

Regards,
Darryl