Better debugger

[Richard777]

Hi guys, I'm currently use the CodeWarrior 6.1 for development in HCS08 microcontrollers, the C compiler is realy a very good compiler, but the integrate Debugger ( I think that the code name is HiWare )  is very bad for mee, for example, very poor user frendly, Exist another alternative to this ?

Thanks in advance and sorry for my english.

Message Edited by Richard777 on 2008-07-17 11:46 AM

[DustyStew]

The amusing thing about the Hiware debugger is that it is buggy. If it starts behaving oddly, reboot.

My understanding is that Freescale is moving over to the Eclipse platform. So maybe next year things will change.

Cheers
Dusty

[Lundin · Accepted solution]

The main problem with the debugger is that whoever made it didn't know of modern programming with multi-threading (modern as in 1995 or later...). Everything goes on in one thread, which causes the user inferface to lock up if the rest of the program doesn't get any response from the hardware...

But have in mind that Codewarrior is owned by Freescale, who make the big cash from selling micros, not software. Therefore CW is free up to 32kb of code or 32 source files. The alternatives are not free. Some alternatives are:

http://www.cosmicsoftware.com
http://www.pemicro.com
http://www.softecmicro.com
http://www.iar.com
http://www.lauterbach.com

I haven't used all of these, so I can't tell which ones that are user-friendly or not. They might require that you use a certain kind of BDM, since some of those companies are first and foremost BDM manufacturers.

[Richard777]

Thanks for your responce !

Best regards !