Re: [avr-gcc-list] Watching automatic variables in AVR Studio

[Torleif Sandnes]

Wallace White wrote:
> On 4/18/05, Torleif Sandnes <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> > When I set a watch on a global variable in AVR Studio, the watch works
>>
>>>as expected. But I haven't had any luck with watching automatic
>>>variables; AVR Studio always reports "Not in scope."
>>>
>>>Is that just the way it is? It's been two years since I developed on
>>>the AVR, and I thought you could watch automatics before, but maybe
>>>that's wishful remembering. I was one of the early beneficiaries of
>>>J"org's extended coff tools, which seems to have been superceded by
>>>elf dwarf-2 support in AVR Studio, so I'm using elf now:
>>
>>This may be a side-effect of optimization or debugging another part than you
>>compiled for.
>>Which optimization flags do you compile with?
>>Try to turn optimization off and see if stack variables are correctly 
displayed
>>then.
>
>
> Of course! Turning off optimization did the trick. Did I mention it's
> been a couple of years? ;)

Theoretically, the Dwarf debug information has arrangements for keeping track of 
variables through their lifetime in optimized code. I think I could add support 
for this in AVR Studio if avr-gcc put this information in the object files.

Torleif