[U-Boot] u-boot newbie - question about the 'debug( )' function ...

Andy Fleming afleming at gmail.com
Wed Jan 14 21:48:21 CET 2009


On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Jonathan Barrow <jj.barrow at gmail.com> wrote:
> In many of the sources, such as "board.c",  I notice calls to
> 'debug()'.  The syntax looks similar to printf(),   e.g.:  debug
> ("Stack Pointer at: %08lx\n", addr_sp);
>
> Is this output sent to the BDM, such as bdi2000?  or Ethernet?  posted
> to memory?
>
> Also, is debug() related to the setting in 'config.mk' :
>
>     DBGFLAGS= -g # DDEBUG
>
> I can't seem to locate where it lives, so uncertain how it works.


It's just a printf that only exists if DEBUG is turned on for the build.


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