Re: [Avr-eclipse-user] What versions of eclipse/cdt are known to work with AVREclipse?

[Thomas H. <th...@in...>]

  Hi Steve,

so far I haven't had any problems with debugging on any Eclipse Version 
up to and including Helios.
Could you post the console output of avr-gdb and of avarice to see what 
is going on? You can use the little icon that looks like a computer 
screen on the top right of the 'Console' view to switch between the 
different consoles.

Also debugging with avarice and AVR processors is generally slow, AFAIK 
due to inefficient protocols (reverse engineered because Atmel has not 
released the MK2 communication protocol). This is aggravated by Eclipse 
as it tries to read all AVR registers after each step.
However 5 seconds per step seems rather slow. With my AVRDragon (usually 
connected to an AVR Butterfly for testing) It takes maybe 0,5 to 1 sec 
per step.

Maybe you can increase the JTAG bitrate to improve the speed. Take a 
look at the '--jtag-bitrate' option of avarice any see if it helps.
Another thing to improve single stepping is to change to 'Instruction 
step mode'. Instead of single stepping the C source this mode will step 
single assembler instructions, which is usually faster. IIRC this is 
activated by clicking on the little 'I' Icon next to the 'Step in', 
'Step over' and 'Step out' icons.

Cheers,

Thomas


On 08.10.2010 14:43, Steve Jones wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm cannot get debugging to work with more recent versions of eclipse than 3.4 (Ganymede).
>
> I'm using an ATMEL/AVR JTAG MK2 on windows with WinAVR-20100110. Even on Ganymede single stepping is
> very slow (5 seconds per step).
>
> On eclipse 3.5 and 3.6 hardware debugging fails to start on both. I can download using AVRDude OK.
> WinAVR/avr-gdb starts up and acknowledges a connection but eclipse fails to enter the debug perspective.
>
> Are there known issues with later versions of eclipse or am I doing something wrong?
>
> Thank, Steve.
>
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