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Re: [avr-gcc-list] Eclipse, avarice, JDB usage?

From: Dennis Clark
Subject: Re: [avr-gcc-list] Eclipse, avarice, JDB usage?
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 13:54:58 -0600 (MDT)
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> Dennis Clark wrote:
>>> dlc wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>>   No one on AVR-chat appears to use avarice, avr-gcc and Eclipse.  All
>>>> are using AVR studio or nothing at all for debugging.  SO, my question
>>>> to this group is.  How?  Does anyone have any experience using the
>>>> following nifty tools all together?
>>>> avr-gcc
>>>> avarice
>>>> Eclipse
>>>> Eclipse AVR plugin
>>>>
>>>> To debug a program?  It seems a lot of effort to create avarice to
>>>> connect to the ADB engine for debugging for no one to use it.  Is
>>>> there
>>>> a group dedicated to that topic perhaps?
>>> I usually end up discussing avarice on avrdude-dev, which may not be
>>> the
>>> canonical place, but it seems like the right place to get information
>>> on
>>> avarice is where ever Joerg can be found :)
>>>
>>> Sorry to say I don't use Eclipse -- although I've been thinking I
>>> should
>>> try it :)  I use avr-gcc + avarice + gdb on Linux, but the
>>> old-fashioned
>>> command line way.
>>>
>>> Not being familiar with Eclipse, this is going to be a dumb question...
>>> but since avarice looks like any other gdb server isn't the hookup
>>> relatively straight forward? (He says as he waits for the dull thud of
>>> the clue stick.)
>>
>>   You may be correct.  But I have not used GDB before.  I've used some
>> predecessors long ago in UNIX land, but when it comes to debuggers in
>> microcontrollers I have been strictly "printf" and/or an IDE holding my
>> hand.
>>   I've read that GDB can interface to Eclipse through a CDT(?) module,
>> which implies that avr-gdb will as well, but I have no clue how to
>> connect avarice to avr-gdb and have not yet found a "how to" so that I
>> can ask intelligent and informed questions.  So I too am awaiting a
>> thump on the head...
> <thumper>
> First google hit of the search terms: avr-gdb avarice
> http://winavr.sourceforge.net/AVR-GDB_and_AVaRICE_Guide.pdf
> </thumper>
>
> That should get you started with avr-gdb.  gdb supports remote
> debugging, and avarice simply fakes out gdb to look like a remote debug
> target by running the IP traffic through a loopback port.
>
> I don't know what a CDT module is.  If Eclipse uses the same protocol as
> gdb to talk to remote debug targets then you should be in luck.
>
> Hope that helps,

  I had found this before, but it was so _old_ I'd disregarded it.  As I
read more it looks like a good jumping off point.  It points out places
I can get information - Like avarice (in this document) says it can only
support hardware break points.  DebugWire however only supports software
break points which means that you can't debug a DebugWire only device
with avarice, only the bigger ones that use JTAG.  <head shaking> I'll
have to decode the more current documents to see what gives there.  It
appears that many of the devices that I use from Atmel support neither
JTAG nor DebugWire, I'll have to upgrade.

thanks,
DLC


> Dave
>
>>
>> thanks,
>> DLC
>>
>>> -dave
>>>
>>>> thanks,
>>>> DLC
>>>
>>
>>
>
>


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Dennis Clark
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