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Synchronized Debugging Through DA-C IDE
Debugger Interface
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Debugger Interface
DA-C v3.5 currently integrates a DAPI interface (Debugging support Application
Programming Interface). Through this interface DA-C is enabled to exchange messages
with the Debugger. The advantages of this connection allow you to set or delete break
points from within DA-C (in an editor, flow chart, graph, browser) and to execute other
debugger operations. DA-C follows the debugger in its operation, since it is always in the
same file and on the same line as the debugger. Thus, usability of both the DA-C and
Debugger is increased. Some configurations are required in order to make efficient use of
this Debugger Interface:
• Installation of communication DLL
• Configuration of Debugger properties
• Configuration of the Debugger project file
DA-C IDE and Debugger Communication
DA-C and the Debugger are both Microsoft Windows applications and communication is
based on the DDE protocol, as shown in
Figure 9.10 . The whole system contains:
• DA-C
• Debugger
• cDAPI interface implementation DLL - which is used by DA-C (Cdgen32.dll)
• nDAPI communication DLL (provided by DA-C), which is used by Debugger
• Debugger specific DLL for bridging its interface to debugging environment and DA-
C's nDAPI (DAC.wnd)