How to show all printed values when using arm-none-eabi-gdb? - arm

I'm debugging an ARM in VS Code using openocd, arm-none-eabi-gdb and cortex-debug.
When I try to print a formatted variable in the debug consol it hides duplicated values.
Is there a way to get all values printed on one line (as it is when using cppdbg) or at least not hide values. This hiding makes it impossible to copy and compare to a similar array from the matching unit test.
I do think it hides all identical lines and not only when using the print command.
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Resizing output Terminal in C Language

would like to get some help on a c project i am currently working on. I have a string/array of output to the terminal, but somehow the standard terminal is too small for my output. Even after i manually expand the window of the console the output is still cut off, instead of printing in a single line, it just gets cut off and go to the next row automatically.
hope to get help.
I think that the only way to correct this is by splitting your one-line output in multiple lines, using "\n" at the end of every line.
By doing this you can control when and where it has to write in the next line, and you can make it look more like you wanted to.

error in looping over files, -fs- command

I'm trying to split some datasets in two parts, running a loop over files like this:
cd C:\Users\Macrina\Documents\exports
qui fs *
foreach f in `r(files)' {
use `r(files)'
keep id adv*
save adv_spa*.dta
clear
use `r(files)'
drop adv*
save fin_spa*.dta
}
I don't know whether what is inside the loop is correctly written but the point is that I get the error:
invalid '"e2.dta'
where e2.dta is the second file in the folder. Does this message refer to the loop or maybe what is inside the loop? Where is the mistake?
You want lines like
use "`f'"
not
use `r(files)'
given that fs (installed from SSC, as you should explain) returns r(files) as a list of all the files whereas you want to use each one in turn (not all at once).
The error message was informative: use is puzzled by the second filename it sees (as only one filename makes sense). The other filenames are ignored: use fails as soon as something is evidently wrong.
Incidentally, note that putting "" around filenames remains essential if any includes spaces.

Loop using variable that changes every loop-calculation with certain step-size

I am using a loop that adds a value (step) to dist. After adding step to dist I would like to use it in the following calculation which provides the value c. Both, dist and c, should then be listed in two columns next to each other in an output file.
If I use the code below it works at least to list the values for dist in the output file.
dist=0
do while (dist < rim)
dist=dist+step
c=0.5*(cl-cr)*erfc((dist)/(2*sqrt(t*d)))+cr
write(1,'(1f20.0)')dist*1E+06
enddo
If I replace the write command by the one below it will not list two nice columns but somehow mix both.
write(1,'(1f20.0,1f15.5)')dist*1E+06,c
Is this a problem related to the positioning of the writing command in the loop or is it related to the format it is told to write the values?
You should add a space between them and re-check:
write(*,'(F20.0,1X,F15.5)') dist*1E+06, c
Also consider the accuracy with which you are writing the results to the file.

C escape sequence \033[999D not working properly

I'm trying to use the escape sequence \033[999D as a brute-force way of moving the cursor to the top row in the console. When I run my program, rather than doing what I intend, it returns a left-pointing arrow and a [999D, on the same line that I was last on.
How should I properly use this escape code? Are there any (better) substitutions?
My (test) code:
printf("This is a line\n");
printf("This is another line\n");
printf("\033[999D Overwrite");
My output:
This is a line
This is another line
←[999D Overwrite
Check out the Win32 Console API.
Particularly of interest to you:
GetStdHandle (MSDN)
SetConsoleCursorPosition (MSDN)
Here is an example showing how to move the cursor to a specific position.
Here is an example showing how to clear the screen.
Of interest to people looking to set console colors:
SetConsoleTextAttribute
There are two problems (most likely): The first is that the D VT100 cursor control sequence is to go back a number of columns, which means it will go back a number of columns on the current row. It will not change line.
The second and the likely problem the code is printed is because you probably are using the Windows console program (the "DOS prompt") which is very bad at handling VT100 sequences by default.

Trace and log values of a variable with GDB

I am not an experienced programmer but I recently have to check C code translated from Matlab, in order to ensure that with the same data set, C and Matlab are giving the identical results.
Watches are what I am able to use until now but that requires me to sit in front of the screen and watch the values of a variable change at each loop. Is there a way to trace and log the values of a variable into a .txt file so that I can plot it later to compare with the results from Matlab?
I have already tried to write the values into some .txt file with 'fwrite' but there is not the ideal solution as I have to do that in the C code that I want to check. Embarrassed I am currently reading about tracepoint of gdb and will try to use that but I am still unsure if that is what I need. If you have some tips about what else I try.
I´m using Windows 7 and work with CodeBlocks.
Thanks!
Christina
You can set a breakpoint command to run when your watchpoint hits; have it log and execute a continue command to let the program keep running.

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