How can I get printf output and vprintf output to go the same place during debugging?

[Symbolic]

Environment:

  Tower kit using twrk60d100m processor board

  Using MQX 4.0.2 and CW 10.5.

  Using J-Link or on-board (USB) JTAG

Problem:

   The application has printf statements and also vprintf statements in it.

   printf output shows up on the debug console

   vprintf output disappears

My research results so far:

  printf ends up using a routine that writes to the console (and uses SEMIHOSTING SWI) to send characters - these appear on the debug console under CW debug

  vprintf tries to use the kernel table->active task->stdout file pointer (which is NULL) and because of a test for NULL, throws away all the output.

My question:

  How can I get the vprintf output to show up on the debug console?

  Failing that, how can I get the printf and vprintf output to show up in the same place?

[DavidS]

Hi Stephen,

Please have a look at my attached "hello.c" file that can be placed into your MQX4.0/mqx/examples/hello2 folder.

Assumptions are RTOS user_config.h has  #define BSPCFG_ENABLE_IODEBUG 1.

The BSP tower header file modified with following (I tested this on my TWR-K20D72M using OSBDM interface):

Please look at comments "//DES" in source file.

#ifndef BSP_DEFAULT_IO_CHANNEL

    #if BSPCFG_ENABLE_IODEBUG  //DES was BSPCFG_ENABLE_TTYB

        #define BSP_DEFAULT_IO_CHANNEL                      "iodebug:"  //IDE debug console  //DES was "ttyb:"    /* OSJTAG-COM  polled mode  */

        #define BSP_DEFAULT_IO_CHANNEL_DEFINED

    #else

        #define BSP_DEFAULT_IO_CHANNEL                      NULL

    #endif

#else

    /* undef is for backward compatibility with user_configh.h files which have already had it defined */

    #undef  BSP_DEFAULT_IO_CHANNEL_DEFINED

    #define BSP_DEFAULT_IO_CHANNEL_DEFINED

#endif

In summary from the hello.c file:

#if CUSTOMER_CODE2 //DES 1=test,0=default code

errmsg( "%s %d %s\n", "Failed", 100, "times" ); //DES Note: without the "\n" errmsg doesn't display the message (unless another printf used with "\n"). With the "\n" it displays OK.

#endif 

My console window shows:

Hello

World

Error: Failed 100 times

Regards,

David