Debugger not stepping properly with Arduino
Glad you were able to fetch it. Sorry about the hassle. Thank you for this suggestion. As soon as I have an opportunity to validate this I am going to and share the results. I appreciate the quick response.
Sorry it took me so long to get back to this. It has been a busy week. I just re-tested after renaming the assembly file to .asm. I see no noticeable difference in behaviour. Here is what the contents of the directory look like, for reference. What is now .asm used to be .S.
I recorded another video, which may be helpful, after renaming the file as you had recommended. Please, have a look at this. I am sorry, I could not upload here due to the restriction. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iB8X6hzGZzx73xF_Fh8mq7DcpFToAICp/view?usp=sharing.
-rw-r--r-- 1 szaydel staff 34962 Nov 3 10:22 m328Pdef.inc
-rw-r--r-- 1 szaydel staff 113 Nov 10 09:50 simulide_assembly1.asm
-rw-r--r-- 1 szaydel staff 67 Nov 10 09:52 simulide_assembly1.asm.hex
-rw-r--r-- 1 szaydel staff 13 Nov 10 09:52 simulide_assembly1.asm.eep.hex
-rw-r--r-- 1 szaydel staff 167 Nov 10 09:52 simulide_assembly1.asm.obj
-rw-r--r-- 1 szaydel staff 268 Nov 10 10:29 simulide_assembly1.asm.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 szaydel staff 684 Nov 10 10:29 simulide_assembly1.sim1
-rw-r--r-- 1 szaydel staff 67 Nov 17 10:01 simulide_assembly1.hex
-rw-r--r-- 1 szaydel staff 13 Nov 17 10:01 simulide_assembly1.eep.hex
-rw-r--r-- 1 szaydel staff 44213 Nov 17 10:01 simulide_assembly1.lst
-rw-r--r-- 1 szaydel staff 169 Nov 17 10:01 simulide_assembly1.obj
There is something weird there.
Maybe you have files from previous compilations?
What happens if you delete all .hex .obj and .lst files and compile?
I went ahead and did as you had suggested. Removed all files other than simulide_assembly1.sim1, simulide_assembly1.asm, and m328Pdef.inc. I recompiled, uploaded the hex file and same exact behaviour. I cannot imagine that this is somehow a result of running on an ARM mac?
No idea what is the problem.
And I can't replicate your results.
For me, extension .s does not work because it generates file.s.hex instead of file.hex.
Avra expects extension .asm (at least in my system) and it works normally.
Understood. I am using .asm now with same results. If you can think of something else I am happy to try. I am assuming that there are no other settings that I need to configure for this. My basic assumption is that when I start the debug session I should be able to single step through the code and properly jump incrementing variables in the loop. I expect all this to work without any further configuration. Please let me know if my assumptions are correct.
Thank you for trying to debug this with me.
Regards, Sam.
Don't need any configuration, just be sure that everything is correct: MCU frequency is ok, reset pin is deactivated and so on.
For what I see the compilation is ok, and the source is mapped correctly.
Also remember you mentioned that the program is actually running.
Maybe is just the GUI not updating?
You can try to run 1 step and then resize the Editor window to force an update, If the arrow moves then it is an update problem.
BTW, I'm assuming you are using the last version, isn't it?
Thank you for the feedback. Latest version, yes. I will check to see if maybe this is in fact a GUI issue.