topic Re: Codewarrior 10.5 view char pointers as strings in CodeWarrior for MCU

Codewarrior 10.5 view char pointers as strings

cruton — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 22:07:47 GMT

So this has been a problem since 10.2 apparently. I just downloaded 10.5 and it still seems to be an issue.

If I declare a variable like this:

char * p="displayme";

it won't appear as a string in the debugger.

But if I declare it like this:

unsigned char * p="displayme";

It shows up as a string. Is there any fix for this?

thanks

Re: Codewarrior 10.5 view char pointers as strings

BlackNight — Sat, 08 Feb 2014 12:08:52 GMT

Hi Carl,

that might depend on the signess for character, and the toolchain used.

Below is what I get for GNU ARM gcc with CodeWarrior 10.5:

And I get it correctly under the variables view too:

Erich

Re: Codewarrior 10.5 view char pointers as strings

cruton — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 17:00:50 GMT

I'm using for a board based on the Coldfire mcf54452 processor. I'm not sure where to find the toolchain in Codewarrior, Codesourcery probably? Maybe the m68k series aren't getting a lot of love in the recent versions of CW?

Re: Codewarrior 10.5 view char pointers as strings

TICS_Fiona — Wed, 12 Feb 2014 02:33:44 GMT

The command line tools for Coldfire is under CodeWarrior 10.5 subfolder:

C:\Freescale\CW MCU v10.5\MCU\ColdFire_Tools\Command_Line_Tools

Re: Codewarrior 10.5 view char pointers as strings

cruton — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 17:07:56 GMT

I was kind of hoping this would work itself out in 10.6 but it's still broken. Any news on this?