topic The difference with CW in Kinetis Design Studio

The difference with CW

haidong_zheng — Thu, 15 May 2014 01:35:51 GMT

My KDS in running on ArchLinux 64bit.

1: In CW, when I view the memory, there is a view render as HEX Integer format, while in KDS, I only can see HEX format, HEX format is byte array, while HEX Integer is integer array, please see below picture:

I thinks HEX integer is very useful in view the memory, could KDS team as this way in new KDS release ?

2: In CW, when I need a breakpoint I will enter this breakpoint in Debug Console likely this command : bp khci.c 1024, while in KDS I can't find this Debug Console, this is also a very useful feature.

KDS memory view:

CW memory view:

CW Debug Console:

Re: The difference with CW

BlackNight — Thu, 15 May 2014 06:29:34 GMT

There are two different views for memory in Eclipse:

Memory View
Memory Browser View

Each has its pros and cons. For 'embedded' memory views the 'traditional' rendering can be used:

Then you can specify the cell size, or the radix (signed, unsigned, hexadecimal, ...)

As KDS is using GDB, you can use the normal GDB command line debugging. For this, open the corresponding arm-none-eabi-gdb console:

help breakpoints

gives you a quick help. Have a look as well at Debugging with GDB

For example 'break main' will set a breakpoint at main:

I hope that helps as a starter?

Erich

Re: The difference with CW

haidong_zheng — Thu, 15 May 2014 06:44:08 GMT

Thanks Erich!

That is the correct way just like in CW.

For GDB console, TAB key seem can't do auto completing the comamnd like in real GDB console. Is there a way do this ?

Re: The difference with CW

BlackNight — Thu, 15 May 2014 06:49:44 GMT

No, tab auto completion is not supported in the Eclispe GDB console, see c++ - Is there any enhanced gdb console for Eclipse? - Stack Overflow

Re: The difference with CW

haidong_zheng — Thu, 15 May 2014 06:53:47 GMT

Hi Erich, Got it, Thanks!