Segger RTT and ARM Semihosting

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Segger RTT and ARM Semihosting

Avamander opened this issue 3 years ago · comments

I would really like to add a bundled back-end for both Segger RTT and ARM Semihosting to this library.

The primary advantage of both approaches is the lack of need for anything else than the JTAG/SWD port access. Semihosting is something that's also accessible with open-source tools such as OpenOCD.

Brendan · Answer 1 · Sat May 15 2021 03:40:05 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Should these extra interfaces only get built when build type is set to DEBUG? I imagine the build would fail if the end user doesn't have the proper dependency software/drivers installed. We could also employ a CLI arg to CMake to avoid requiring the user to satisfy these circumstantial dependencies.

Avamander · Answer 2 · Sat May 15 2021 04:34:57 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I imagine the build would fail if the end user doesn't have the proper dependency software/drivers installed.

The implementations I've seen are quite self-contained, but could be built only when explicitly enabled. Either way it's usually without external dependencies.

Brendan · Answer 3 · Sun May 16 2021 06:52:19 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Clearly, I need to explorer semi-hosting more. I'll probably start with how PlatformIO implements debuggers... BTW, I have added a library.json (in the "2bndy5-refactor" branch) for compatibility with PlatfomIO, but I haven't actually tested this scenario since we'd be primarily relying on the Arduino framework.