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NGOLA.1
NGOLA.1
Associate
January 21, 2020
Question

General Register modification during debug possible ?

  • January 21, 2020
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Is-it possible during a debug session to modify general registers (e.g r3 ) .

Context: Win 7 host with Virtual Box 6.0.4 for client Ubuntu 18.04 running STM32CubeIDE 1.2.0 on the integrated debugger of the Nucleo demoboard with STM32F412ZG

Help Center tells:

"In the Registers view, right-click a register and click Change Register Value."

but the screenshot below ( french version ) shows cut/copy/paste/delete/select all/ and the last but not the least "Insert an Emoji" ! ( after right click around the register value)

0690X00000BwGzAQAV.pngAfter a right click on the register name r3 I have a english menu this time !

0690X00000BwH0SQAV.png

Modification through "Watch" is also not possible.

Colleagues told me it was possible with Attolic to modify general registers during debug.

Many thanks in advance for any hints

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7 replies

NGOLA.1
NGOLA.1Author
Associate
January 21, 2020

Indeed it works but you have to make a "Paste" with the modified value. It is not very convenient...

Ozone
Ozone
Principal
January 21, 2020

With other Eclipse-based IDEs, one often has to double-click on the (register) value.

NGOLA.1
NGOLA.1Author
Associate
January 21, 2020

No, double-click does not work for me. No sign of an "edition mode" available.

NGOLA.1
NGOLA.1Author
Associate
March 2, 2020

The limitation was not only on General Registers but also on any place where you can modify a value ( variable or registers ...)

The same problem was seen also on the recently released 1.3.0

BUT I discovered that the blinds were blissful !!

You can modify whatever you want:

*Just click with the mouse on the left side on the value

*type blindly as many figures you want and then hit the ENTER key !

if a value is 123 and you want it to be 5, click on the left of the 1 and type SPACE SPACE 5 and hit enter !

Any comments by ST reps ???? :-((

APavl.3
APavl.3
Visitor II
September 23, 2020

Hello.

In 1.4.2 it does not work even for blinds. I was trying to change SP register, no luck. Even in debugger console set $sp=(void *) 0x200000a8 does not work.

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