Re: [Avr-eclipse-devel] AVR Hardware debugging continued

[Michael L. <mn...@mn...>]

I'll have a look at these issues as my time allows. I'll let you know
when I check something in.

 - Michael


Am 04.03.2012 12:57, schrieb Thomas Holland:
> Yes, it works now. Looks great!
>
> Can I talk you into doing a few improvements? :-)
>
> 1. There is still a minor bug that causes the launch to fail if the
> JTAG bitrate has not been set.
> In AvariceGDBServerFactory.java line 52 you should check if the
> bitrate has been set and only add the -B option if required.
>
> 2. It would be nice to have some options to control where the debugger
> will stop for the first time. Default should be "main", with the
> option to switch it off.
> Currently the debugger halts at the very first instruction (address
> 0x00000, the reset vector). This should be optional and be off by
> default as most C developers probably won't care about anything
> happening before main().
> GDBJtagStartupTab.java in org.eclipse.cdt.debug.gdbjtag.ui should
> contain all the needed code.
>
>
> 3. The "Build before start" feature should be off by default, as makes
> no sense to build the project if it is not uploaded to the device
> afterward.
>
> 4. Of course it would be nice to have an auto-upload feature :-)
> But this should best be done with avrdude, as avarice is both slow and
> buggy with regard to uploading flash memory.
>
> 5. AVRGDBFinalLaunchSequence.java could probably be streamlined a bit,
> it has some steps that are not necessary for AVR debugging (e.g.
> Executable Arguments, Shared Libraries)
>
>
> I could do this myself, but I would rather finish the other big change
> that working on, multiple paths support (to make it easy to switch
> between different compiler versions).
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Thomas
>
>
> On 03.03.2012 23:58, Michael Lipp wrote:
>> OK, I found the problem. Please sync again with
>> gi...@gi...:mnlipp/avr-eclipse-fork.git, it should work now.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>     Michael
>>
>> Am 03.03.2012 21:56, schrieb Michael Lipp:
>>> [Regarding
>>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/avr-eclipse/forums/forum/664382/topic/5071000]
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> well, I'm afraid this is part of the "haven't done such an advanced
>>> plugin before". I had created a Hardware Debugging Tab at some time
>>> during my development (before I have done anything, actually) and
>>> used this all the time. I get the same error as you do now when I
>>> try to create a new tab (had not tried that up to now).
>>>
>>> I still have to understand that. Right now, I don't know what
>>> extension I should have provided where and why.
>>>
>>>  - Michael
>
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