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  2. QTCREATORBUG-23508

Skip built-in include paths while debugging

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    • Suggestion
    • Resolution: Unresolved
    • P3: Somewhat important
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    • Qt Creator 4.12.0-beta1
    • Debugger

    Description

      While debugging code that uses STL you don't want to debug STL itself, but just your code.

      With skip -gfi path/* one can skip all files from a specific directory.

      Qt Creator has a list of directories it considers build in, which on Windows using MinGW 7.3 looks like this:

            C:/Qt/Tools/mingw730_64/lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/7.3.0/include/c++(built-in include path)
      C:/Qt/Tools/mingw730_64/lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/7.3.0/include/c++/x86_64-w64-mingw32(built-in include path)
      C:/Qt/Tools/mingw730_64/lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/7.3.0/include/c++/backward(built-in include path)
      C:/Qt/Tools/mingw730_64/lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/7.3.0/include(built-in include path)
      C:/Qt/Tools/mingw730_64/lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/7.3.0/include-fixed(built-in include path)
      C:/Qt/Tools/mingw730_64/x86_64-w64-mingw32/include(built-in include path)

      By adding the lines into Debugger's pre start commands:

      skip -gfi C:/Qt/Tools/mingw730_64/lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/7.3.0/include/c++/*
skip -gfi C:/Qt/Tools/mingw730_64/lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/7.3.0/include/c++/*/*
skip -gfi C:/Qt/Tools/mingw730_64/lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/7.3.0/include/c++/x86_64-w64-mingw32/*
skip -gfi C:/Qt/Tools/mingw730_64/lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/7.3.0/include/c++/backward/*
skip -gfi C:/Qt/Tools/mingw730_64/lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/7.3.0/include/*
skip -gfi C:/Qt/Tools/mingw730_64/lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/7.3.0/include-fixed/*
skip -gfi C:/Qt/Tools/mingw730_64/x86_64-w64-mingw32/include/*

      I was able to skip all STL headers while pressing F11.

      Note that skip -gfi C:/Qt/Tools/mingw730_64/lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/7.3.0/include/c++/*/* was not part of the initial list, and with this I needed to skip C:/Qt/Tools/mingw730_64/lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/7.3.0/include/c++/bits/ directory.

      Qt Creator could have a combo box in Debugger dialog which would automatically enable skipping of the build in include directory paths.

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          Suggestion - Public suggestions QTCREATORBUG-29693 Support /jmc (just my code) MSVC compiler feature

          • P3: Somewhat important - Should be fixed, but doesn't affect the release in any way.
          • Reported

          Suggestion - Public suggestions QTCREATORBUG-31599 Allow skipping certain symbols or code when debugging

          • P3: Somewhat important - Should be fixed, but doesn't affect the release in any way.
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