Chapter 3. Installing Dynamic C; An Overview Of Dynamic C - Rabbit RabbitCore RCM2000 Getting Started Manual

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To develop and debug programs for the RCM2000 series (and

for all other Z-World and Rabbit Semiconductor hardware), you

must install and use Dynamic C. This chapter takes you through

the installation of Dynamic C, and then provides a tour of its

major features with respect to the RCM2000 series.

Dynamic C integrates the following development functions into one program:

• Editing

• Compiling

• Linking

• Loading

• Debugging

In fact, compiling, linking and loading are one function. Dynamic C does not use an In-

Circuit Emulator; programs being developed are downloaded to and executed from the

"target" system via an enhanced serial-port connection. Program development and debug-

ging take place seamlessly across this connection, greatly speeding system development.

Other features of Dynamic C include:

• Dynamic C has an easy-to-use built-in text editor. Programs can be executed and

debugged interactively at the source-code or machine-code level. Pull-down menus and

keyboard shortcuts for most commands make Dynamic C easy to use.

• Dynamic C also supports assembly language programming. It is not necessary to leave

C or the development system to write assembly language code. C and assembly lan-

guage may be mixed together.

• Debugging under Dynamic C includes the ability to use

expressions, breakpoints and other advanced debugging features. Watch expressions

can be used to compute C expressions involving the target's program variables or func-

tions. Watch expressions can be evaluated while stopped at a breakpoint or while the

target is running its program.

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