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ICD2 & CCS IDE??

 
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ICD2 & CCS IDE??
PostPosted: Sun May 23, 2004 6:26 pm     Reply with quote
For the last three days I've been seriously considering the purchase of the CCS compiler tool. But about 5 months ago, I bought the ICD2 product not realizing I'd need C capability. The CCS compiler sounds great and certainly has a great price. But I suspect that I cannot use the ICD2 within the CCS IDE. Anyone care to comment on whether I am correct or not?

Also, can anybody identify the strengths and weaknesses of the two IDEs? I'm quite familiar with MPLAB, but I will be starting cold with the CCS IDE. How is its debugging features as compared to MPLAB? Does anyone know how debugging of floating point values is supported in the IDEs? (I have read of some correctable problems in the FAQ with MPLAB 6.5 and the plug-in.)
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Re: ICD2 & CCS IDE??
PostPosted: Sun May 23, 2004 7:23 pm     Reply with quote
Guest wrote:
For the last three days I've been seriously considering the purchase of the CCS compiler tool. But about 5 months ago, I bought the ICD2 product not realizing I'd need C capability. The CCS compiler sounds great and certainly has a great price. But I suspect that I cannot use the ICD2 within the CCS IDE. Anyone care to comment on whether I am correct or not?

You can use the ICD-2 with the CCS compiler, and run it on the MPLAB IDE. I haven't had any problems as far as program execution and routine single stepping. However, MPLAB IDE does not interpret CCS's floating point correctly, so you would expect to see meaningless numbers if you try to put a "watch" on that float variable. What I usually do is do a printf() over the serial port to see what float value i really do have.

Also, can anybody identify the strengths and weaknesses of the two IDEs? I'm quite familiar with MPLAB, but I will be starting cold with the CCS IDE. How is its debugging features as compared to MPLAB? Does anyone know how debugging of floating point values is supported in the IDEs? (I have read of some correctable problems in the FAQ with MPLAB 6.5 and the plug-in.)


I don't use the CCS IDE much, but I believe it does interpret floating point properly.

If you are on a shoestring budget, you can just get the command line debugger compiler (not PCW/PCWH), and use it under MPLAB IDE.
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