calling a subroutine with parameters from a script

Hi Robert,

the expression.evaluate() API should return whatever value is returned from the GEL function that you called. So if your "GEL_call" function returns a value, that will be the return value of expression.evaluate

Thanks

ki

You missed the whole point, Ki.  I want to call not a GEL function, but I want a GEL or DSS way to call a C function that executes on the unit under test -- the target board.  Instead of GEL_go() I want some sort of GEL_call().  Is there any way to do this from a script?  Since it is C code, not C++ code, we do not need to handle thrown exceptions, but we do need to be able to handle functions with more than one return statement in the compiled C code on the target.

Not to belabor the point, but since you missed it the first time, I will say all this a different way.  I have a C source code file, lets call it foo.c, and it looks something like this:

int foo(char a, int b) {

    if (a == 'A") {

        return 1+b;

    } else {

        return 2+b;

    }

}

Now what I need to be able to do from the script is call foo() with several different sets of parameters, like this:

x = foo("A",3);

y=foo("B",7);

etc.

I need to call -- from the script -- the compiled C function foo() that resides on the embedded target board that is being controlled by DSS, and I need to be able to capture the value that the function returns.

I need to be able to do this for various arbitrary functions, not just the example function foo().  This is so I can demonstrate that the API for the function behaves according to its specification.

Is there any way to do this without having to write test scaffolding code in C on the embedded target?  The idea is to be able to test these API's on the code image that we will be shipping with the product, not on some modified binary image that is used just for testing.  Our regulated environment prohibits the presence of "dead code", so I cannot ship with test scaffolding in the code.  This functionality is a peice of cake with gdb, butt I am forced to use the code composer environment on this project.  Surely I am not the only person who has ever needed to do this dort of thing.