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bmd-studio / stm32-for-vscode

STM32 extension for working with STM32 and CubeMX in VSCode
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Cortex-Debug: No access to cortex-live-watch variables, registers and Memory #170

Open 95lux opened 8 months ago

95lux commented 8 months ago

I can not access the above data from cortex-debug, is this normal behavior? My project builds fine, and i can set breakpoints, add variable watch and debug as normal. But cortex-live-watch variables and the registers tab in the debugging window do not work. image I am using an STM32 Nucleo F401RE, with a super bare-bones project setup.

jortbmd commented 8 months ago

Hi! Thanks for opening up a issue for this. The live watch functionality is not something I have enabled by default in STM32 for VSCode. It is possible to add it however by setting the livewatch configuration in your launch.json file. E.g.: 

      "liveWatch": {
        "enabled": true,
        "samplesPerSecond": 4
      },

If you had this too your configuration it should work.

For the register/peripherals. These sometimes do not work and I have not been able to debug as to why as of yet. Will try to dive into that a little bit more once I have time available. There is however a xperipherals section which should give you the same information. Hope this helps!

shanemmattner commented 7 months ago

Thank you @jortbmd. I got Live Watch working. Some of the drop-downs for structs will be delayed or not drop down at all, but stopping execution and clicking the drop down button will show all fields as expected.

Great tool!