ATT: [ros-dev] VOTE: Switch to Wine Debug System. [3 days remaining]

[Alex Ionescu]

ea wrote:

> Thank you Alex for the clarifications.
>
>>> Does switching to Wine debugging kill the NT compatible debugging 
>>> (or is it a superset)?
>>
>>
>> No, on the contrary, it allows us to implement it (we currently don't).
>
>
> This leads to two more questions.
>
> 1. Are we talking about
> a) a way to emit string messages;

Yes

> b) the kernel mode debugger;

No

> c) the DBGSS in the SM (a neutral debug message router, subsystem 
> servers are debug message filters, debugger process, debuggee etc)?

No. By the way, DBGSS is pretty much deprecated and when I eventually 
work on Debugging I'll use Native Debugging Objects.

>
> 2. There will be a way to strip completely debug messages from 
> binaries (this is different than silencing all messages)?

Defintely, the macros will expand to nothing on a release build.

>
> Emanuele Aliberti

Best regards,
Alex Ionescu