AVR-Chat

On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 06:46:38PM -0000, Graham Davies wrote:

> Yes. I quote from the WinAVR readme file: "AVaRICE is a program for
> interfacing the Atmel JTAG ICE to GDB and users can debug their AVR.
> Use in conjunction with GDB." This probably works on Linux and Mac
> platforms too. Mind you, I haven't tried it, as AVR Studio seems
> pretty good to me. Building with WinAVR and debugging on AVR Studio
> is much more "seamless" than you'd think.

But if you are using a Mac, Linux, or FreeBSD, AVR Studio is not
really an option since it is Windows-only.

That's where AVaRICE comes in - it works well on Mac, Linux, and
FreeBSD.  I personally use it on MacOS X and FreeBSD.  Logically,
AVaRICE is positioned in between 'gdb' (GNU Debugger) and the actual
JTAGICE hardware and allows 'gdb' to single-step, set break points,
watch-points, etc, etc.  Just like debugging any remote target on Unix
- quite powerful and capable.  I've caught several elusive bugs using
this setup that defied my other usual techniques.

-Brian
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Brian Dean
http://www.bdmicro.com/