CDT Monthly Call November 10 2021

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Date: November 10, 2021 11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada) (Calendar/ICS)
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John: Memory data init ordering issue (GDB Hardware Debug) (Action: John create bugzilla ticket and Cc Torbjörn) Carried forward as Action DONE
Promod to ping Jonah if there are unanswered questions. DONE

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John: Memory data init ordering issue (GDB Hardware Debug) (Action: John create bugzilla ticket and Cc Torbjörn) Carried forward as Action DONE
Promod to ping Jonah if there are unanswered questions. DONE
- Ashling plans to return to Global Variable work later this month

2021-12 Updates

Merging org.eclipse.remote into CDT repo/releng

Long Path limitation

Anton raised issues about long path and it causing issues.
William points out that some of the tools underneath (like gcc) have limits that can be overridden.
Torbjörn / ST have patches for GCC that are non-trivial for handling long paths, but still many limitations.
Details of this conversation not captured here - refer to relevant bugs.
In Windows 10 with with some APIs long paths are supported
William wants to make sure that a global warning on long paths isn't added because it would warn in situation that tools actually support it ok.
William: The executables need to be "manifested" to support or not support long paths. Can be embedded in executable or added alongside as an XML
Torbjörn: To fix this, we need all tools to support long paths or else users will have a failure in downstream tools (e.g. if gcc works, but gdb doesn't you still have problems)
Binutils Bugzilla 25713 has some regression with regards to long paths
Action: Anton to raise specific bugs if there is anything on CDT side that can/should be done and notify cdt-dev so that interested parties can join the discussion.

CMake discussion

Managed Build

Torbjörn: Static analysis runs, leaves files around that need to be cleaned. How to hook in the clean?
The files generated are a little like function profiling extra files
William: Can adjust clean command for the builder, or edit makefilegenerator. e.g. add rm for *.ext rather than rm file.ext
John: Can be done like .d file? Just not -include it?
William: Renesas customizes the generator to add an extra variable added to clean command

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