#128 Adding breakpoints

[Safouan Ben Jha]

Hi all,

It would really be amazing if we could insert breakpoints in eclipse (sveditor), so we can export them through run configuartion variables to questa ( as questa allows setting break points from terminal )!!

Currently, I need to wait for questa to load everything and run , and then If I am lucky and I did not forget to stop simulation before bypassing the instruction that I want to stop at, I insert breakpoints.

Many thanks

[Matthew Ballance]

Hmm... Interesting thought!
Just trying to think this through a bit. Looks like you're using the Eclipse launcher to launch your build and run. If so, I'm guessing your workflow would be:

• set breakpoints within Eclipse while editing code
• launch compilation and simulation via the Eclipse launcher, which might also result in the breakpoints being exported (to a file, to a variable, etc)
• Import the breakpoints into the simulator on startup

Is this similar to what you have in mind?

Thanks,
Matthew

[Safouan Ben Jha]

Yes exactly!! I would love to have this feature and it would make SV coding much more productive!
PS: If you have a look in this pdf questa manual page 241, you can see that is possible to set a breakpoint through command line by setting: bp <filename> <line number=""></line></filename>

As a first draft, I suggest to make the breakpoint list in a variable that is accesible by Eclipse launcher, and to have the possibilty to set at the beginning the separator between the breakpoints
( ; or , or : or ; bp ..... or anything depending on your own simulator ).
If you see anythor way to elaborate the idea for a better user experience, it's more than appreciated.

Thanks,
Safouan