Support for simple fixed point value displays in the variable watch window [Imported Thread]

Since most ARM 7/9 processors do not have floating point hardware, i find myself using fixed point representations frequently, but it is very hard to visualise whats going on when watching values in the debug watch window, can you add the ability to speci

Idea Originally Posted by: peter.a.wilson 20/12/2009

03/01/2010 Jonathan Elliott (Admin)

It's fairly simple to allow display of variables in a given format (e.g. signed 1Q30 or unsigned Q32, for instance). This I can do.

31/12/2009 KDP

I wonder if this is too specific of a thing to implement? What would be cool is if the display in the debugger were scriptable. That is, when the contents of an address range changed, you could have a script run that manipulated/displayed the data as you saw fit. I know I would personally love something like this. Then, a simple script would potentially solve your problem.