VS Code Watch window real time update

RE: VS Code Watch window real time update

Susheel Nuguru — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 07:20:01 GMT

you can still use Ozone on the executables created by VSC to have the same debugging features from Segger. It is one extra step inconvenience but atleast should give you a similar debugging experience.

RE: VS Code Watch window real time update

Chris — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 16:34:50 GMT

That is unfortunate that this feature wont be supported in VSC. We use this feature daily in Segger and it has been invaluable to our development.

RE: VS Code Watch window real time update

Susheel Nuguru — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 07:03:34 GMT

We got this request before and our developers things that this is not a good thing to add support for this feature in the VSC debugger level. The API that VSC will have to use to implement this will most likely interfere with the CPUs accesses and possibly introduce bugs. In addition you're likely to get out-of-sync data if you're looking at things that the CPU is keeping in registers.

This use case should be handled with RTT or ITM tracing rather than forcing debugger reads.