CCS C PCW Debugger

Loading, Reset, Go, Halt, Go To Line, Step and Step Over control commands are provided. The source and list windows in the PCW IDE show the current line being executed. Stepping in a source window steps a full C line and in the listing window only an assembly line (single word instruction). Step over works correctly for standard functions, inline functions and library calls.

Standard RAM and Data EEPROM windows show the data and the locations recently changed. The data may be manually changed on a byte basis. Program memory is disassembled and shown in assembly language mnemonics.

Special function registers are grouped by a function and each bit is fully interpreted in the debugger window.

The watch window allows full C expressions to be specified. Complex types like arrays and structures are fully understood and show in a natural form. All data types are displayed correctly (including bits and floats) and may be shown in a user specified format (like hex). Variables may be modified with standard assignment commands as in the following example: buffer[i].start = 0x1234

Break points can be set on a source or list file line.

A monitor allows character I/O to and from the target platform. The target program can printf to this debugger window and getc from it.

A logging window can be configured to save specified data in the window and optionally in a spreadsheet compatible file every time a specified source line is executed.

Complete debugger setup profiles can be easily saved, loaded and associated with a given project.

All debugger data or any subset of the data can be print or saved to a disk file. Furthermore, the debugger can be configured to append specified items to a disk file on every break or every single step.