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Re:How to run C programs on the BeagleBone's PRU microcontro... by NwtnsMthd on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @02:51PM (#12542168)
> I indeed haven't used CCS-Eclipse in years. Has it finally eliminated its lag and RAM usage? I was always amazed how it managed to continuously stay just ahead of Moore's Law in terms of resource usage.

You're right, the lag was bad. Recently I haven't noticed it much, maybe I got used to it, or maybe it's been improved. Currently my instance of CCS 6.0.1 uses around 286MB of RAM, CCS 6.1.0 uses about 480MB of RAM. In comparison PyCharm (2016.1.4) is using 927MB of RAM :(

How did you debug code running on the hardware without an IDE? Is there an easy-ish way to do that?

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Re:How to run C programs on the BeagleBone's PRU microcontro... by AceJohnny2 on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @05:13PM (#12543481)
> How did you debug code running on the hardware without an IDE? Is there an easy-ish way to do that?

gdb :)

Most in-system-debuggers expose a gdb-server interface, that a client gdb can then connect to. GDB is very scriptable.

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