CCS/EK-TM4C129EXL: Breakpoints and Watching variables

Hi Naveen,

There are three unrelated questions here. In the future, it is recommended to post a separate thread for each question.

Naveen Kumar29 said:

I am working on the EK-TM4C129EXL Evaluation board. As of now I trying to set breakpoints in the program. I have set a breakpoint the C code. The breakpoint is sown as blue dot in the program. Is there any option to directly run to the breakpoint skipping the intermediate steps??  I am seeing options like Step over , Step Into, Step return.. Is ther any option to run to breakpoint in CCS.

Yes, you can use the "resume" button to run to the breakpoint. I suggest going through the CCS fundamentals workshop for Tiva, especially the debug section part (lab 2). It should go over the topics of interest to you:

http://downloads.ti.com/ccs/esd/training/workshop/ccsv7/tm4/site/#lab-2-basic-debug-concepts

Naveen Kumar29 said:

Also what is use of System_printf(). I had seen that multiple times in example code. Where will be the messages inside the system_printf() gets printed??

Please see page 137 of the below document:

http://www.ti.com/lit/ug/spruex3t/spruex3t.pdf

The output should appear in the debug output console. Note that the message gets buffered and you will only see the message when the buffer is flushed.

Naveen Kumar29 said:

What is meant by GEL file ??. What is the use of it??

Open the CCS Help (Help -> Help Contents) and browse to the section shown below:

Thanks

ki