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Bug 271542 - CHAR as variable name
Summary: CHAR as variable name
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: debugger
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Code (show other bugs)
Version: Dev
Hardware: PC Windows 10 x64
: P3 normal (vote)
Assignee: Martin Entlicher
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Reported: 2017-09-28 02:23 UTC by GuitarLegend
Modified: 2017-09-28 02:23 UTC (History)
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Description GuitarLegend 2017-09-28 02:23:44 UTC 
A long on-going assembly language project has used CHAR as a variable name to hold a character value. The development team has been using this for some years. While there are no operational problems, the debugger (MPLAB X v4.01) does not report the value contained in this variable. I had to change the name to CBUF before it would report the value. While this is fine for me, there are several team members using the same code and I would have to change it in everyone's project files, just so that I can monitor its value during debug sessions. I imagine that CHAR is a keyword in another language (C) handled by MPLAB X that, for some reason, the debugger can't identify as a user variable even though it is an assembly language project. The specific problem is when hovering over the variable name, in most cases, its address and value are shown. But not so with CHAR.