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Version 7.3.4, 2024-03-21

Bug fixes (in QUTest):

Feature (in QView):

Version 7.3.3, 2024-03-01

This release applies the pylint static analyzer to all Python utilities included in the QTools collection:

The biggest changes for compliance with pylint include migration from %-strings to f-strings (requires Python 3.6 or higher).

QSPY host application:

  • Updated to the latest changes in the QS component in QP 7.3.3.

QClean host application:

  • added new file extension to clean (.cmake, .json, .pyi, .md5)

QTools collection for Windows (qtools\bin directory) now includes:

executables to accompany the new cmake support added in QP/C 7.3.3.

Version 7.3.1, 2023-12-13

Added Python script qspy_kill.py to remotely terminate (kill) the QSPY host application.

QSPY host application:

  • modified the UDP interface to accept the QSPY_DETACH packet with additional parameter, which forces a clean exit from QSPY

new qspy_kill.py script

  • added new qspy_kill.py Python script to send the QSPY_DETACH-Exit UDP packet to QSPY. The qspy_kill.py script is located in the qtoos/qspy/ directory and can be used in the test automation to remotely terminate QSPY.

Version 7.3.0, 2023-09-12

Updated QSPY Host Application for the latest QP/C/C++ 7.3.0.

Version 7.2.1, 2023-01-11

Introduced the QUTest interactive mode.

Version 7.2.0, 2022-12-22

QUTest testing framework:
This release represents a significant overhaul of the qutest.py test runner.

Attention
The qutest.py script runner qutest.py command-line options have been expanded and changed. Unfortunately, it was not possible to preserve the backwards compatibility with the earlier versions. This means that various Makefiles for building and running tests need to be updated.
  • added generation of test logs (feature required for safety certification efforts)
  • added generation of QSPY logs) (might be also helpful in documenting tests for safety certification.)
  • changed the format of the output generated by qutest.py to better match the more verbose output generated by test scripts. (The minimal one-line-per test output could not be reconciled with various notes now generated by test scripts.)
  • changed the policy of handling assertion failures inside test fixtures (to match changes in QP/C/C++ 7.2.0). Specifically, now an assertion failure causes an automatic reset of the target, without waiting on the test script to trigger the reset. This minimizes the expectations placed on the compromised target system, which might be unable to receive any external commands.
  • added generation of "notes" from tests in the QSPY output to improve its readability and enable easier correlation of the QSPY output to the test scripts.
  • added new note() command for generating notes from test scripts (These notes appear in the QUTest output and in the QSPY output. Also they are added to the test log files, if logging is enabled.)
  • added new scenario() command (alias for test()) to support the BDD (Behavior-Driven Development) style of writing "scenarios".
  • added new tag() command (alias for note()) to support the BDD (Behavior-Driven Development) style of writing "scenarios".

QSPY host application:

  • added "Enum Dictionaries" and parsing of the Enum data item
  • changed dictionaries for QUTest command() from "User" dictionaries to "Enum Dictionaries" for enum-group 7 (#QS_CMD_ENUM). This change affects only QP 7.1.4 and newer. For backwards compatibility, older versions of QP still use the "User" dictionaries for commands.
  • implemented feature request #197 for displaying of "notes" from QUTest or QView in the QSPY output. This includes rendering special test notes now produced by QUTest 7.2.0.
  • implemented feature request #199 for truncating state annotations in sequence diagrams.

QView visualization and monitoring:

  • added generation of "notes" in the QSPY output from the Commands menu.
  • updated the QView interface to QSPY to toggle various output formats (text, binary, Matlab, sequence)

Documentation -Updated the QTools documentation.

Version 7.1.3, 2022-11-18

QSPY host application:

QCLEAN host application:

  • Added new file types and changing some cleaning rules for white-space cleaning.

Documentation

  • Modified the doxygen/ folder for generation of QM Manual in LaTeX (enables generation of PDF)

Version 7.1.2, 2022-09-28

QSPY host application:

  • Added pre-defined "Scheduler" records:
    • QS_SCHED_PREEMPT replaces deprecated QS_MUTEX_LOCK
    • QS_SCHED_RESTORE replaces deprecated QS_MUTEX_UNLOCK
  • Increased the default version for backwards compatibility from 6.6 to 7.0 (command-line option -v, now defaults to 7.0)
  • Increased the default for QTimeEvt counter size from 2 to 4 (command-line option -C, now defaults to 4). This corresponds to the change of the default value of QF_TIMEEVT_CTR_SIZE to 4 in QP/C and QP/C.

Version 7.1.1, 2022-09-03

Slightly restructured QSPY source code to better integrate directly with QP applications. Specifically, moved QSPY_cleanup() to qspy.c, so it is available to the applications.

Version 7.1.0, 2022-08-22

Changes in QSpy

Changes in QUTest

Changes in QUView

  • qview.py has been updated to include new QS trace records and global filters for them. The following QS record groups have been added to QView:
    GRP_SEM - Semaphore QS records
    GRP_MTX - Mutex QS records

Version 7.0.0, 2022-01-31

Changes in QSpy

  • The QSpy 7.0.0 implementation has been re-factored to modularize it in order to better support building host-based applications for executing embedded code on the host. Specifically, the new QSpy design better separates the "QSpy parser" of the QS records from the rendering engine and from other functionality of the QSpy host application.
  • Also, this release introduces semantic coloring of the QSPY output, which improves its readability. This feature is now controlled by the added command-line option -r<c0|c1|c2>.

Changes in QUTest

  • added command last_rec() to access the last received QS trace record.
  • improved semantic coloring of the output.

Changes in QCalc

  • added "batch mode" in which an expression can be provided on the command-line to qcalc.py.
  • added semantic coloring of the output.

Updated GNU-ARM Toolchain for Windows

  • The GNU-ARM toolchain included in QTools for Windows has been updated to the latest Version 10.3-2021.10 released on October 21, 2021.

Updated Python for Windows

  • The Python interpreter included in QTools for Windows has been updated to Python 3.10.1 (32-bit).

Version 6.9.3, 2021-04-09

Changes in QSpy

Changes in QUTest

  • Corrected the DEBUG mode, where the Enter key now correctly skips a test.
  • Added new command include() and provided examples of its use.
  • Improved error reporting from test scripts. Specifically, the content of the Python stack has been expanded to encompass all the relevant calls.

Changes in QView

Changes in QWin

  • Modified the example code to correctly handle regular buttons alongside the "owner-drawn" buttons.

Changes in QCalc

Updated Python for Windows

  • The Python interpreter in QTools for Windows has been updated to Python 3.9.4.

Version 6.9.2, 2021-01-18

Changes in QUTest and QView

The UDP socket binding (for connection to QSPY host application) has been changed from "localhost" to "0.0.0.0". This is to improve access to QSPY running on remote hosts. This fixes the following bug:

Changes in QView

Changed the "Local Filter" dialog box to show "QS_id=..." instead of "AO-prio=..." for QS-IDs above 64.

Added QCalc

A new version of the popular QCalc Programmer's Calculator has been added again. This version is based on Python (whereas the previous was based on Tcl/Tk). The new version is console based and, among other enhancements, adds support for 64-bit range.

Updated GNU-ARM Toolchain for Windows

The GNU-ARM toolchain in QTools for Windows has been updated to the latest Version 10-2020-q4-major, released on December 11, 2020.

Updated Python for Windows

The Python interpreter in QTools for Windows has been updated to Python 3.9.

Version 6.9.1, 2020-09-28

The main purpose of this release is to adjust QUTest™ Unit Testing Harness and QView™ Visualization & Monitoring to the new QS Local Filter design implemented in QP/C and QP/C++ 6.9.1. Specifically, the loc_filter() and ao_filter() functions in QUTest scripts and in QView scripts has been re-designed. Additionally, the QView Local Filter menu have been adjusted accordingly.

Note
The change in the loc_filter() command has implications for existing QUTest scripts. Specifically, the parameters of loc_filter() are no longer object names but rather "QS-IDs" (see the documentation to loc_filter()).

Changes in QSPY

The QSPY host application has been updated to handle the redesigned local-filters and the new predefined QS_QF_NEW_ATTEMPT trace record. Also the default version compatibility with the QS target-resident component (the -v command-line option) has been increased from 6.2 to 6.6.

Additionally, the QS_U64() and QS_I64() data elements have been made available for all types of CPUs, whereas previously they were available only on 64-bit CPUs (see also feature#181).

Additionally, QSPY now can format application-specific data elements in hexadecimal. Here are a few examples of QS trace records in the Target and the generated QSPY output:

QS_U8(QS_HEX_FMT, 0xABU); // --> 0xAB
QS_U16(QS_HEX_FMT, 0xDEADU); // --> 0xDEAD
QS_U32(QS_HEX_FMT, 0xDEADBEEFU); // --> 0xDEADBEEF
QS_U64(QS_HEX_FMT, 0xDEADBEEF12345678LL); // --> 0xDEADBEEF12345678
#define QS_U8(width_, data_)
Definition qpc_qs.h:397
#define QS_U32(width_, data_)
Definition qpc_qs.h:413
#define QS_U16(width_, data_)
Definition qpc_qs.h:405
#define QS_HEX_FMT
Definition qpc_qs.h:564
#define QS_U64(width_, data_)
Definition qpc_qs.h:421

Implemented Feature Requests

Version 6.9.0, 2020-08-21

This release brings the new QView™ Visualization & Monitoring component, which replaces QSpyView written originally in Tcl/Tk. The new QView is written in Python (3.3.+) and brings much commonality with the QUTest™ Unit Testing Harness, which has also been re-structured and improved.

Note
Starting with this version, both QView™ Visualization & Monitoring and QUTest™ Unit Testing Harness require Python3 (3.3+) and are no longer compatible with Python2. The support for Tcl/Tk has been dropped entirely in QTools.

Changes in Directory Structure

The new QView and the updated QUTest components are now located directly under the qtools folder and are no longer in the qtools\qspy folder. Here is the new qtools directory structure:

qtools/
+---bin/
+---gnu_arm-none-eabi/
+---matlab/
+---mingw32/
+---Python38/
+---qclean/
+---qspy/
+---qutest/ # <== new qutest location
+---qview/ # <== new qview location
+---qwin/
+---Unity/
Note
The changes in the QTools directory structure have impact on QUTest testing, because the Makefiles (or any other build tools you might be using) need to be adjusted to the new location of the qutest.py script.

Changes in QSPY:

Note
The QS_QF_RUN record is now generated in QUTest, which requires adjustments in existing test scripts. Specifically, the test scripts that provide their own on_reset() callback must now also call expect_run().

Bug Fixes:

Version 6.8.2, 2020-07-17

  • Changed the QS trace record name QS_QF_ACTIVE_POST_FIFO to QS_QF_ACTIVE_POST and QS_QF_EQUEUE_POST_FIFO to QS_QF_EQUEUE_POST. This refactoring now better matches the QP/C/C++ API QACTIVE_POST() and QEQueue_post().
  • Fixed errors in the Doxygen documentation, such as: missing documentation for parameters, wrong parameter names, unresolved references, etc.
  • Applied new, clearer styling to the Doxygen documentation.

Version 6.8.1, 2020-04-04

Bug Fixes:

Also, improved some comments in QUTest scripting documentation (qutest.py).

Version 6.8.0, 2020-03-21

  • Adapted the QSPY host application to the changes in QP/C/C++ 6.8.0.
  • Added color to the qutest.py Python script console output. Specifically, failing test scripts are shown in RED, while passing test scripts are shown in GREEN.

Version 6.7.0, 2019-12-30

This QTools release changes the build process for the QSPY, QCLEAN, and QFSGEN utilities on Windows. Specifically, these programs are now built using Visual Studio 2019 instead of the MinGW compiler for Windows. Also, the source code of all Quantum Leaps utilities has been reviewed and all "unsafe" calls to standard C library have been replaced with their "safe" counterparts (e.g., strcpy()->strcpy_s(), strcat()->strcat_s(),fprintf()->fprintf_s(), etc.) All these changes were made to avoid the malware warnings that were issued by some anti-virus software against executables built with MinGW.

This release also replaces the MinGW toolchain (8.2.0) with the latest mingw32 (9.2.0) installed with MSYS2 (see also https://sourceforge.net/p/qpc/discussion/668726/thread/06b89ba2d5/ ).

Finally, this release updates the QWIN Prototyping Toolkit (qtools\qwin directory) to work with the latest Visual Studio 2019 and specifically with the Resource Editor now available in VS 2019. The qwin-demo project has been updated to build with Visual Studio 2019.

Version 6.6.0, 2019-08-30

The main purpose of this release is the change in distribution of the QTools collection, which is now bundled together with the QP frameworks (QP/C, QP/C++ and QP-nano) as well as QM into "QP-bundle". This "QP-bundle" provides a single, streamlined and simplified download and installation of all QP frameworks and all the accompanying tools.

Also this release brings significant changes to QTools for Windows. Specifically, the locations of the MinGW compiler and Tcl/Tk have been changed to separate directories (as opposed to being co-located in the qtools/bin directory). This facilitates easier upgrades of these third-party tools, and indeed, they have been upgraded in this QTools/Windows release as follows:

  • MinGW-32-bit 8.2.0.
  • Tcl/Tk 8.6.
Note
The directory reorganization means that the MinGW compiler is no longer available in the qtools/bin directory and therefore the QTools installer for Windows adds to the PATH both the qtools/bin and qtools/MinGW/bin directories.

Also, this release makes the following changes to the QSPY host application:

  • The command-line defaults have been changed such that qspy is equivalent to the former qspy -u -t. In other words, QSPY by default opens the UDP port and opens the TCP/IP port for Target connection.
  • The QSPY host application now supports a new QP-compatibility version 6.6.0, in which the Application-Specific QS Trace Records start at offset 100 instead of 70. This is only activated with the -v 660 command-line option, but is in preparation for the future changes in QP/C and QP/C++ frameworks (the upcoming QP/C/C++ 6.6.0).

Version 6.5.1, 2019-06-08

This release adds debug mode to QUTest scripting (in Python). Specifically, you can now provide a special value DEBUG to the qutest.py Python script launcher, in which case qutest.py will start in debug mode, in which it will not launch the host executable and will not reset the Target. Instead, qutest.py will wait for the Target reset and other responses from the Target.

Additionally, this release improves the QTools installation on Windows. Specifically the Windows installer now installs Python and has been re-designed to automatically set up the QTOOLS environment variable and add QTOOLS%\bin;QTOOLS%\python to the PATH. The uninstaller reverses these changes.

Version 6.4.0, 2019-02-10

This release speeds up the QSPY host application by tweaking the timing constants in the TCP and UDP communication interfaces. The resulting QSPY 6.4.0 runs QUTest tests significantly faster (at least twice as fast) as before.

Version 6.3.8, 2018-12-31

The main purpose of this release is the update of the GNU-ARM toolchain (included in QTools for Windows) to the latest GCC 8. Specifically, this QTools release switches to the official GNU-ARM Embedded Toolchain for Arm Cortex-M and Cortex-R processors maintained by ARM Ltd..

Note
For consistency with the GNU-ARM Embedded Toolchain, the toolchain is now located in the directory qtools\gnu_arm-none-eabi and contains tools with the prefix arm-none-eabi-. This is different from the GNU-ARM toolchain used previously (which was located in qtools\gnu_arm-eabi and used the tools prefix arm-eabi-). This change requires adjusting existing Makefiles and other build commands for the GNU-ARM toolchain, which has been done in the matching QP/C/C++/nano release 6.3.8.

Additionally, this release makes further improvements to the "qutest.py" Python interface. Specifically, the skip() command can now be used anywhere in the test scripts to skip the commands. (Previously, the skip() command could only legitimately be used just before the test() command).

Version 6.3.7, 2018-11-19

This release brings a completely re-designed and simplified Python interface for the QUTest unit testing harness. Specifically, this release adds a new scripting engine called simply qutest.py, which replaces the previous "qspypy".

Note
The new interface qutest.py is now the primary supported QUTest scripting interface. The older interfaces, such as TCL ("qutest.tcl") and "qspypy" are still provided in this release, but they are considered obsolete and are not recommended for writing new test scripts.

The new qutest.py Python interface is a simple single-threaded application that no longer requires PyTest or other such external Python packages, as did "qspypy" previously. The new Python interface is now also compatible with both Python 2 (2.7+) and Python 3 (3.4+), which means that virtually any contemporary Python version without extensions can be used for running QUTest Python scripts.

Note
The new Python interface "qutest.py" implements a different (simpler) structure of QUTest test scripts than "qspypy" before. Examples of the new Python test scripts are provided in the matching QP/C/C++ release 6.3.7.

Additionally, this release fixes the problem in the QSPY host utility to correctly format signed integers (I8, I16, I32), which didn't work correctly on 64-bit Linux platforms. Also, the QSPY utility on Windows now uses the newer Windows socket library "ws2_32", which replaced the old "wsock32".

Finally, the QTools release for Windows updates the provided MinGW GNU-C/C++ compiler to version 6.3.0.

Version 6.3.6, 2018-10-03

The main purpose of this release is to improve QUTest support. Specifically, this release adds a feature of querying and reporting the status of the current objects, such as the current State-Machine (SM), Active-Object (AO), current Memory-Pool (MP), current Event-Queue (EQ), and current Time-Event (TE). The feature impacts the following facilities:

  • the QSPY host utility now processes the new QS_QUERY_DATA packet
  • the QUTest Tcl scripting implements the new command command query_curr()
  • the QUTest Python scripting implements the new command command qutest.query_curr().
Note
This feature requires matching QP/C/C++ 6.3.6.

Also, the following bugs related to Python scripting have been fixed in the qspypy 6.3.6 included in this release:

Note
If you already have the previous version of qspypy, you need to re-install it by means of the following command:

pip install %QTOOLS%\qspy

Finally, this release of the QTools collection contains the Unity unit testing harness (framework).

Version 6.3.4, 2018-08-16

This release adds official support for writing QUTest test scripts in Python. Also, this release fixes some minor typos in error messages generated by QSpy.

Version 6.3.1, 2018-05-24

This minor release corrects the QSPY utility. Specifically, the application-specific output from the macros QS_FUN(), QS_OBJ() and QS_SIG() contained extra space (' ') before the function/object/signal name. This extra space has been now removed.

Note
The change might impact existing QUTest test scripts which parse the QS_FUN(), QS_OBJ() or QS_SIG() output.
The corrected QS_FUN(), QS_OBJ() and QS_SIG() output (without the extra space) is assumed in the QUTest examples that ship in QP/C/C++ 6.3.1.

Version 6.3.0, 2018-05-10

This release simplifies the usage of the QUTest (qutest.tcl) and QSpyView (qspyview.tcl) utilities by reducing the number of parameters required by these scripts. Specifically, the "local_port" parameter might now be omitted and still every instance of qutest.tcl / qspyview.tcl will be given a unique local UDP port. Additionally, the "port" parameter has been combined with the "host" parameter in the form host[:port].

Here is the new usage of the qutest.tcl script:

tclsh qutest.tcl [test-scripts] [host_exe] [host[:port]] [local_port]

Here is the new usage of the qspyview.tcl script:

wish qspyview.tcl [extension_script] [host[:port]] [local_port]

For example, to attach to QSPY running on the host 192.168.1.100 and port 7705, you now can launch these scripts as follows:

tclsh qutest.tcl *.tcl test_fixture.exe 192.168.1.100:7705
wish qspyview.tcl dpp.tcl 192.168.1.100:7705

Modified files:

  • qspy.tcl
  • qspyview.tcl
  • qutest.tcl.

Also, this release adds the LMFlash utility to QTools for Windows for flash programming of TM4C MCUs.

Note
The changes should be transparent for most existing QSpyView and QUTest projects (this includes all examples shipped in QP/C and QP/C++). However, projects that run QSPY at non-default UDP ports might need to be adjusted.

Version 6.2.0, 2018-03-13

This release updates the QSPY host utility as well as the qutest.tcl and qspyview.tcl scripts for the following new QS records introduced in QP/C/C++ 6.2.0:

The global filter settings in the qutest.tcl and qspyview.tcl scripts have been updated to the augmented and re-organized QS trace records.

Additionally, the new commands post() and publish() have been added to the QUTest "testing DSL" (qutest.tcl script). Examples of use of these new commands are provided in the QP/C/C++ directory <qpc|qpcpp>\examples\qutest\defer\.

Version 6.1.1, 2018-02-06

This release fixes the following bug in QSPY:

Additionally, this release simplifies the format of the external dictionary files, so that they can potentially be generated from .map files or .elf files. The new format no longer requires storing the number of entries in the dictionary and the entries don't need to be sorted by the key-value. The new dictionary format also allows adding comments and empty lines between the dictionary blocks.

Additionally, the QSPY for POSIX (Linux, MacOS, etc.) corrects the problem with reading input from a file (-f[bin_file] command-line option).

Finally, this release increases the QCLEAN maximum size limit to 10MB per file.

Version 6.1.0, 2018-01-20

This release improves the QSPY command-line option processing by allowing option parameters to be separated by spaces from the option letter (including the optional parameters). For example, the following command-line would not work in the previous version, but will work now:

qspy -t 6602

At the same time, the option parameters can follow immediately the option letter, so the following command line will work as well (backwards compatibility):

qspy -t6602

This release also improves the handling of external dictionary files in QSPY host application. Specifically, the -d command-line option has been extended to allow no parameter, in which case an external dictionary file is opened automatically as soon as QSPY receives the target reset or target information. When the -d <file> option is used, the provided dictionary file is used right away, but the dictionary information might get discarded when the target information does not match the configuration and time-stamp obtained from the dictionary file.

Version 6.0.3, 2017-12-12

Fixed compilation and linkage on MacOS for qspy, qclean, qfsgen.

Fixed bug#180 qspyview.tcl for peek is not in sync with the qs_rx parsing of peek.

Used unsigned integer math in qcalc.tcl.

In QTools for Windows, updated the GNU-ARM toolchain to the latest available GCC 7.2.0 adapted from SysProgs Prebuilt GNU toolchain for arm-eabi:

http://gnutoolchains.com/arm-eabi/.

Version 5.9.3, 2017-07-04

Fixed bug#175 "QS_QF_ACTIVE_GET & QS_QF_EQUEUE_GET Record Mislabeled in QSPY Output" (https://sourceforge.net/p/qpc/bugs/175/ ).

Added bin/qcalc.tcl to the GIT repository (so that it shows up on GitHub).

Version 5.9.1, 2017-05-19

Added the GNU-ARM (EABI) toolset to the QTools Collection for Windows in the directory qtools/gnu_arm-eabi. The addition of the GNU-ARM toolset matches the changes made to Makefiles in QP/C/C++/nano 5.9.2.

To reduce the size of the QTools for Windows download, the self-extracting archive file qtools_win32_<ver>.exe has been prepared with the 7-Zip utility.

Version 5.9.0, 2017-05-19

This release adds the QUTest (pronounced 'cutest') Unit Testing support to QP/Spy software tracing. Specifically, this release adds a new head-less (console-based) QSPY front-end, which runs unit tests.

This release also adapts the QSPY host utility to support QUTest unit testing. Several new commands have been added and the structure of the code has been expanded.

Also, the QSpyView Visualization extension has been moved to the tcl\ sub-directory (the Tcl script tcl\qspyview.tcl).

The other Quantum Leaps utilities, like QClean, QFSGen, and QCalc, have been updated and greatly improved.

Finally, all utilities in the QTools collection have been documented in the new QTools Manual, available online at https://www.state-machine.com/qtools.

Version 5.7.0, 2016-09-08

Corrected the QSPY software tracing host application to properly display floating point numbers in user-defined trace records (QS_F32() and QS_F64() macros). The problem was incompatibility between Microsoft VC++ and GCC floating-point format specifications. In the GCC software build (which produces the QSPY executable in the qtools/bin directory), the MS-VC++ floating point format resulted in all zeros (e.g., 0.0000e+000).

Version 5.6.4, 2016-05-04

Added QWIN GUI to the collection (sub-directory qwin_gui).

Updated the QSPY software tracing host application for the QS trace record name changes introduced in QP 5.6.2.

Version 5.5.0, 2015-08-21

Extended the QSPY software tracing host application for bi-directional communication with embedded targets (output and input into the target). Added a UDP socket to QSPY, as an extensibility mechanism for adding external unit testing, GUIs and other "front-ends" to control the embedded targets.

Provided new QSpyView Tcl/Tk extension of the QSPY host application for control testing, and visualization of the real-time tracing data from embedded targets at real-time. QSpyView enables developers to rapidly build both GUI-based and "headless" scripts for their specific applications (see https://www.state-machine.com/qpc/arm-cm_dpp_ek-tm4c123gxl.html).

Version 5.3.1, 2014-04-21

Corrected the version representation from hex to decimal, to match the change in the QP framework. The version representation mismatch caused problems in parsing newly modified trace records, when the qspy.c implementation was inserted directly into the projects.

Version 5.3.0, 2014-03-31

Added new trace records to the QSPY host application: QS_QEP_TRAN_HIST, QS_QEP_TRAN_EP, and QS_QEP_TRAN_XP. Changed labels for standard records from Q_ENTRY, Q_EXIT, Q_INIT to ENTRY, EXIT, INIT.

Version 5.1.1, 2013-10-15

Fixed the bug in the QSPY host application, which didn't handle correctly object/functions/signal names longer than 32 characters. The name limit has been raised to 64 characters and this version also correctly truncates the names at the limit without printing any garbage characters.

Version 5.1.0a, 2013-09-18

Modified QSPY utility to support changes in QP 5.1.x:

-improved handling of target resets by adding an empty QS record before the QS_QP_RESET record. The empty record provides the frame delimiter in case the last record in incomplete, so that the following QS_QP_RESET record can be recognized.

-improved handling of internal object/function/signal dictionaries so that symbolic information is displayed for all occurrences of an object/function/signal, for which a dictionary record was received.

Version 5.0.0a, 2013-09-08

Modified the QSPY utility to support changes in QP 5.0.x:

-modified the standard trace records QS_QF_TICK and QS_QF_TIMEEVT_* to contain the tick-rate number.

-added trace records QS_TEST_RUN and QS_TEST_FAIL for unit testing.

-added version compatibility level 5.0, whereas specifying version -v 4.5 runs qspy in compatibility mode with QP 4.5.x.

-added Find And Replace Text (FART) utility for Windows.

Version 4.5.02, 2012-07-21

Re-designed the QSPY interface to support more flexible parsing of the trace records in desktop-based simulations (such as Windows or Qt). Users can provide a custom parsing callback function to QSPY_config(). Also added QS_RESET() macro to reset the internal dictionaries (and other cleanup in the future) when the target resets.

Version 4.5.01, 2012-06-25

Added the QS_USR_DICTIONARY() entry for storing dictionaries of the user trace records. Replaced all remaining sprintf() calls with snprintf().

Version 4.5.00, 2012-05-26

Re-designed the implementation of the QSPY host application, so that it can be convenienty included as part of the QP library. This allows direct QS tracing output to the screen for QP applications running on the desktop. The QSPY application has been converted from C++ to plain C for easier integration with QP/C.

Version 4.3.00, 2011-11-03

This QSPY version matches the changes to the critical section macros made in QP 4.3.00. The QS record names QS_QF_INT_LOCK and QS_QF_INT_UNLOCK have been replaced with QS_QF_CRIT_ENTRY and QS_QF_CRIT_EXIT, respectively.

Version 4.2.04, 2011-09-27

This QSPY version fixes the bug of incorrect reporting function or object pointers for which the dictionary records are not provided and which are repeated in one format line (bug #3405904). For example, trace record AO.FIFO would report (incorrectly) as follows:

0014004078 AO.FIFO: Sndr=200009B4 Obj=200009B4 Evt(Sig=00000009,Obj=200009B4, Pool= 0, Ref= 0) Queue(nFree= 5, nMin= 5)

The Sndr= and Obj= are reported to be the same, but they were not.

Version 4.2.01, 2011-08-01

This QSPY version adds generation of sequence diagrams as files to be processed by MscGen (www.mcternan.me.uk/mscgen/). This version adds the option -g<msc_file> to generate a .msc file.

Also, this version of QSPY for Windows allows COM ports larger than COM9.

Version 4.2.00, 2011-07-13

This QSPY version matches the changes made to QS target code in QP/C/C++ 4.2.xx. These changes include sending the additional byte of sender priority in trace records:

  • QS_QF_ACTIVE_POST_FIFO,
  • QS_QF_ACTIVE_POST_LIFO.

Additional changes include sending the poolID and refCtr of events in two bytes instead of just one byte. The changes affect the following trace records:

  • QS_QF_ACTIVE_POST_FIFO,
  • QS_QF_ACTIVE_POST_LIFO,
  • QS_QF_ACTIVE_GET,
  • QS_QF_EQUEUE_GET,
  • QS_QF_ACTIVE_GET_LAST,
  • QS_QF_EQUEUE_GET_LAST,
  • QS_QF_EQUEUE_POST_FIFO,
  • QS_QF_EQUEUE_POST_LIFO,
  • QS_QF_PUBLISH,
  • QS_QF_GC_ATTEMPT, and
  • QS_QF_GC.

Also, for compatibility with QP 4.2.xx, this version changes the defaults as follows:

signal size (-S) from 1 byte to 2 bytes, and

baud rate (-b) from 38400 to 115200.

This version adds the following trace record:

QS_QF_TIMEEVT_CTR.

The version also adds compatibility with 64-bit targets (such as 64-bit linux). This version can accept 8-byte pointers (both object pointers and function pointers) as well as 64-bit integers sent in user-defined trace records.

This version also adds the hex format for uint32_t integers sent in user-defined trace records.

Finally, this version adds a command-line option -v to specify the corresponding QP version running on the target. The default version is -v4.2, but specifying version -v4.1 or -v4.0 will switch QSPY into backwards-compatibility mode with the earlier versions of QP.

Version 4.1.06, 2011-02-09

This is the initial standalone release of the QSPY host pplication. QSPY is still available in the QP/C and QP/C++ distributions, but other rapid prototyping platforms (such as mbed or Arduino) do not use the standard QP distributions and have no easy access to the QSPY tool. For these users, this pre-compiled standalone release is more convenient.