ModelSim SE User's Manual - Electrical and Computer Engineering

UM-494 20 - Tcl and macros (DO files)
The Debugger
ModelSim SE User’s Manual
procedures, Popup the debugger window or Exit TDebug. Exiting from TDebug doesn't
terminate ModelSim, it merely detaches from vsim.op_, restoring all prepared procedures
to their unmodified state.
Select the Popup button in the Chooser to open the debugger window.
The debugger window is divided into the main region with the name of the current
procedure (Proc), a listing in which the expression just executed is highlighted, the Result
of this execution and the currently available Variables and their values, an entry to Eval
expressions in the context of the current procedure, and some button controls for the state
of the debugger.
A procedure listing displayed in the main region will have a darker background on all lines
that have been prepared. You can prepare or restore additional lines by selecting a region
(, standard selection) and choosing Selection > Prepare Proc or Selection >
Restore Proc from the debugger menu (or by pressing ^P or ^R).
When using `Prepare' and `Restore', try to be smart about what you intend to do. If you
select just a single word (plus some optional white space) it will be interpreted as the name
of a procedure to prepare or restore. Otherwise, if the selection is owned by the listing, the
corresponding lines will be used.
Be careful with partial prepare or restore! If you prepare random lines inside a `switch' or
`bind' expression, you may get surprising results on execution, because the parser doesn't
know about the surrounding expression and can't try to prevent problems.