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- New Project Creation |
- Now it's easier to create and configure a new CDT project:
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- Project Templates |
- Projects can be created from one of the available templates. Project templates include wizard pages that let you configure basic settings for new project code.
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- Editor |
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- Semantic Highlighting
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- Identifiers in the source code can now be colored according to their role, e.g. typedefs, functions, variables, fields, etc.
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- Inactive Code Highlighting
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- Code being excluded by conditional compilation is marked with grey background.
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- Code Folding Improvements |
- Now you can collapse and expand blocks of comments and preprocessor branches in C and C++ files in addition to functions, structures, etc.
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- Code Formatter
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- A configurable code formatter with 4 predefined styles has been added:
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- Smart Typing
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- Typing assistance has been greatly improved. Options include automatic closing of brackets, smart paste and more:
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- Code Navigation Views |
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- Include Browser |
- The Include Browser now lets you see the hierarchy of included headers in a source file.
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- Call Hierarchy |
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- The Call Hierarchy view shows you who calls a function.
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- Type Hierarchy |
- The Type Hierarchy view shows you how C/C++ types are related.
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- Indexer Improvements |
- The indexer is greatly improved with more features and accuracy:
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- Debugger |
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- GDB Hardware Debugging
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- The GDB Hardware Debugging feature provides a specialized debug launch configuration
- that allows you to start up GDB using CDT's GDB integration in a specialized manner that
- allows for sessions that connect to hardware debugging devices, such as JTAG and BDM,
- that support an integration with GDB. In particular it allows you to specify commands that
- are executed when GDB connects to the device, optionally specify an image to load onto the
- target, and specify commands that set up the target for execution.
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- Breakpoint Actions |
- You can now attach actions to a breakpoint. These are additional activities performed when a breakpoint is hit. CDT 4.0 comes with four standard actions that: play a sound, log text to an expression to the console, resume execution, or run an external tool.
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- Contextual Launch Support |
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- CDT 4.0 now takes advantage of the contextual launch support in Eclipse 3.3 to make the run and debug commands just "do the right thing" for C/C++ projects.
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- Locating Source Files |
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- When the debugger can't find a source file using the path in the symbol table it now lets you locate it directly instead of having to configure a source lookup path.
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- Other Improvements |
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- Project Build Button |
- The toolbar now includes a button that builds the active configuration of the selected project. It's menu lets you quickly build another configuration.
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- MinGW Toolchain Integration
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- Support for the GNU toolchain on Windows now specifies two separate toolchains Cygwin and MinGW.
- The MinGW toolchain integration automatically detects the location of your MinGW install and sets
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- MinGW tool chain for new projects:
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- MinGW debugger launch configuration:
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- Task Tags |
- The Task View now includes entries based on tags in your C/C++ source files.
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Task Tag options:
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- IBM XL C/C++ Toolchain Integration |
- If you install the optional CDT feature "XL C/C++ Compiler Support,"
- xlc and xlC toolchain integration is available. Then when you create a new project,
- the XLC project types are available for selection.
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- xlC compiler options are available in the project properties:
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- UPC Support |
- If you install the optional CDT feature "Unified Parallel C Support," the Unified Parallel C programming language
- is supported in the editor. After installing the feature, you can create a source file with extension ".upc"
- and the UPC language constructs are recognized.
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