[coldfire-gnu-discuss] Getting started when firmware is located in ColdFire internal FLASH.

[David Brown]

Claude Sylvain wrote:
> Hello David,
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>  > David Brown wrote:
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>  > Insight is a little different from other gdb frontends, in that it is
>  > combined with the gdb backend.  Thus (I think) you'd need to build gdb
>  > for the ColdFire with Insight support.  It should be possible, but it
>  > might be a little scary if you haven't done it before.
>  >
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> I take a look back to the mspgcc tools set, and you're right.  The
> Insight program that come with mspgcc is build together with GDB in
> one single file that is named "msp430-gdb.exe".
> 

If you are looking for something "lighter" than Eclipse, try The GNAT 
Programming Studio ( https://libre.adacore.com/gps/ ).  I have not used 
gps much, but the debugger gvd is quite good when you want a simple gui 
on top of gdb, and it works with any gdb (including msp430-gdb).  It has 
a bit of a bias towards Ada rather than C/C++, but works fine for them too.