Display Byte Values in Expression View

Russell Knight said:

I just want to see the byte at the designated address, without the data in the adjacent address. How do I do this?

You can right-click on that line in the Expressions view and select Cast to Type to set the type for the variable.

I had tried playing with Cast to Type but whenever I use it, my value gives the following error "Error: line 1: unexpected token: int" (I had tried casting to int - the same type that it defaults to).

Also, as an int returns a 16bit value, do you have a suggestion of what data type I could use that would return an 8bit value?

Thanks Aarti

Russell Knight said:

Also, as an int returns a 16bit value, do you have a suggestion of what data type I could use that would return an 8bit value?

Try char.

AartiG said:

Try char.

I have...same error "Error: line 1: unexpected token: char"

Should I be typing something else into the Cast to Type dialog box? Just straight int and char give me errors.

Russell Knight said:

Should I be typing something else into the Cast to Type dialog box? Just straight int and char give me errors.

That is odd. I tried this out with both CCS 6.0.1 and 6.1.0, although with a different MSP430 device (MSP430F5527 target board) and was able to cast to char.