Re: [avr-chat] JTAG Debug

[jan]

On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:32:03 -0700
"Weddington, Eric" <address@hidden> wrote:

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> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: address@hidden 
> > [mailto:address@hidden
> >  On Behalf Of David VanHorn
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 4:20 PM
> > To: Joerg Wunsch
> > Cc: address@hidden
> > Subject: Re: [avr-chat] JTAG Debug
> > 
> > This is solely a debugging problem, I know the code works, but if
> > you're using the ICE for anything other than a code loader, you'll
> > want to single step through the code at some point.. When the ice is
> > giving you nonsense, how can you debug?
> > 
> > The answer at this point, is that the ices are useless, and you just
> > do "crash and burn" with printf or similar to figure out what's
> > happening.
> 
> I'm sorry you seem to had such problems with the tools. There are
> many other people who have never run across such difficulties, or at
> least had got their issues resolved.

I agree with David that AVR Studio and JTAG ICE MkII can't always be
trusted. Unfortunately that's a common problem with development tools.
Compared to other tools the AVR tools are not so bad, I think. And as
far as I know the other tools don't have Joerg.

/Janne

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