Debugging Global Variables
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Join For Freeif i’m debugging my application in eclipse or codewarrior, it shows in the variables view the local and global variables of the current thread and stack frame only:
this makes sense as this is usually where my focus is. and this is good from a performance point of view: the debugger does not need to read a lot of other variables from the target which i’m not interested in. but the question is: how to show the variables which are in other files if i really need to look at them?
add global variable
to see as other variables, i use the context menu ‘ add global variables… ‘ in the variables view. there is as well a toolbar icon which does the same:
this opens a dialog with a list of all global variables present in my application:
filtering and wildcards
i can enter a filter string to be applied. that helps to narrow down the list if i do not remember the exact name:
filter for files
a powerful trick is to filter for variables in files. for this the format <variablename> # <filename> is used:
summary
debugging and inspecting variables outside of the current thread or stackframe can be done with ‘add globals’ in the variables view. that dialog has powerful filtering including a way to filter for variables in files.
happy global debugging
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