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9 <h2>Tracing</h2> |
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10 <p>Tracing is a way to record debugging information |
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11 that can be used during software development. With tracing, you can generate |
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12 detailed, low-level information about an application's execution in the target |
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13 device.</p> |
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14 <p>Examples of tracing are cases when messages are sent or received |
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15 from a component, when states change, when a certain function is entered or |
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16 exited, or anywhere else in the code where it is interesting to know if code |
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17 has been executed or not.</p> |
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18 <p>System level performance analysis and problem-solving |
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19 are often based on tracing. In your development team, a standard way to instrument |
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20 traces to your code (for example, using the same trace group for fatal error |
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21 tracing) can help in determining which level of traces should be activated. |
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23 <p>TraceViewer collects traces as follows:</p> |
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25 <li>TraceViewer connects to the device according to the connection parameters |
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26 that can be defined on the <b>Preferences</b> page. </li> |
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27 <li>The tool then collects the traces for a specified purpose (for example, |
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28 during the testing of a certain component at the device side). </li> |
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29 <li>The traces are displayed on the Carbide IDE user interface.</li> |
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32 <p><b>Note:</b> there is a distinction between <i>tracing</i> and <i> |
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33 logging</i> as general terms. Tracing is primarily for debugging and diagnostic |
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34 purposes, whereas logging writes records of program usage and is often a functional |
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37 <h5>Related concepts</h5> |
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39 <li><a href="trace_format.htm">Trace formats</a></li> |
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42 <h5>Related tasks</h5> |
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44 <li><a href="../tasks/connect.htm">Connecting to the trace source</a></li> |
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45 <li><a href="../tasks/decoding_traces.htm">Decoding binary traces with a Dictionary file</a></li> |
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46 <li><a href="../tasks/traceactivation.htm">Activating traces</a></li> |
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