Re: gplink and gpsim

On Sun, 31 Jan 2016 22:59:48 -0300
juan <[email protected]> wrote:

>=20
>=20
> 	One of the basic functions of a tool like gpsim is to allow
> 	users to look at program variables, that is, memory locations
> 	associated with names.
>=20
> 	As far as I can tell, there's no easy way to do that if you are
> 	linking with gplink and want to watch local registers/variables=20
> 	using gpsim.=20
>=20
> 	The problem arises because the .cod file that gplink generates
> 	only contains references to global symbols.  Since the
> 	names of the local registers are not written to the .cod file,
> 	they don't show up in gpsim's global symbol table. And so they
> 	can't be added by name to the watch window.
>=20
> 	It is still possible to add any register by address through the
> 	"register view(RAM)" window, but the user has to look up the
> 	names/addresses himself and when added the registers appear as
> 	REGxxx in the watch window - the original names  are lost.
> 	Which isn't exactly helpful.
>=20
> 	So...after trying to find a workaround in gpsim, I found that
> 	the simplest solution is to modify gplink so that it writes
> 	local registers to the .cod file. The gplink 'patch' is 10 lines
> 	long if anybody is interested.=20
>=20

I not watched the list, because very rarely writes someone.
I'm interested in the patch, so if you can please send it to the project:  =
https://sourceforge.net/p/gputils/patches/

Regards:
Moln=E1r K=E1roly