Disassembly Window

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• Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3

8/27/2008

The Disassembly window enables debugging of optimized code, or stepping through source-code lines that contain multiple statements.

The source window treats each line of code as a unit. For example, the following line of code contains multiple statements:

x=1; y=7; Z=3;

This line of code is treated as one unit, even though it contains different statements.

When you use the source window, you cannot step from one statement on a source-code line to the next or set a breakpoint on any statement other than the first.

The Disassembly window operates on disassembled (assembly-language or bytecode) instructions instead of source-code statements or lines.

• Set a breakpoint on any instruction.
• If you use the Step Into or Step Over command while the Disassembly window has focus, the debugger steps through your program instruction by instruction instead of line by line.
• Viewing and stepping through your code by disassembled instructions can be especially useful when debugging optimized code.
  You can press CTRL+F11 to switch between the Disassembly window and the source windows.

• Shortcut menu
  Right-click the window to bring up a menu, which contains the following functions.

• Go To Source
  Opens the source code in a new source code edit window.

• Show Next Statement
  Shows the next statement that would be executed, in the disassembly window.

• Source Path Mapping

  Opens the Source Path Mapping Dialog Box

• Insert/Remove Breakpoint
  Inserts a breakpoint, if there is none, at the line where the cursor is in the Disassembly window.

  If there is a breakpoint at that line, it is removed.

• Enable Breakpoint
  Enables a breakpoint in the Disassembly window.

• Run to Cursor
  Runs to the cursor in the Disassembly window.

• Set Next Statement
  Overrides the next statement, instead executing another statement you selected.

• Source Annotation
  Displays the source code associated with the assembly language code in a different color.

• Code Bytes
  Displays the machine language code associated with the assembly language code in a different color.

• Docking View
  Switches the active window from docking to nondocking mode:

  • Docking mode. When a window is in docking mode, a check mark appears.
    You can dock the window to the border of the main Platform Builder window, or you can change the window to a floating window that can be moved outside the main Platform Builder window.
    To change the window to a floating window, hold the CTRL key and click the frame of the window you select.
    This window can be redocked at any time.
  • Nondocking mode. If the window is in nondocking mode, it appears only inside the main Platform Builder window and cannot be docked.

• Close
  Closes the active window.

See Also

Tasks

Viewing Source Code in the Disassembly Window
Changing Disassembly Window Options

Reference

Source Path Mapping Dialog Box