Carbide.c++ Professional Edition features

Carbide.c++ Professional Edition extends the features of Developer Edition by providing the tools required by developers creating mission-critical applications that ship with devices or that need to make optimal use of a device’s CPU, memory, and power resources.

Key features of Carbide.c++ Professional Edition

Performance Investigator

The Carbide.c++ Performance Investigator is a sampling profiler. It provides developers with tools that allow them to investigate an application’s relative CPU load, memory usage, and power consumption on a device. Power consumption information is available only from devices with power management hardware.

CPU load analysis can be performed on individual threads. The Performance Investigator Analyzer then allows developers to drill down to binaries and function callers and callees, to isolate the source of the load. Thread and binary load information can be acquired without target device sources, but for best results, access to the device’s ROM image-symbol file is required. Information in the Performance Investigator Analyzer can now be copied to the clipboard and pasted into a spreadsheet application such as Microsoft Excel or saved to a comma-separated values (*.csv) file.

System-level on-device debugging

Carbide.c++ Professional Edition delivers system-level on-device debugging with System TRK. Attaching to system threads, unrestricted views into system memory, and the ability to debug applications loaded from RAM/ROFS and ROM ensure that coding problems can be found regardless of the source.

System-level on-device debugging adds visibility to system-level code and memory to the debugging environment. This is especially important for developers working on new-device designs or developers testing their applications with preproduction prototypes. It requires devices on which the manufacturer has installed an R&D certificate.

CodeScanner static analysis tool

The CodeScanner static analysis tool scans code to detect potential problems such as incomplete memory cleanup and excessive code. CodeScanner can help developers improve the quality of their code and reduce the time spent debugging by enabling the detection of problem code early in the development cycle.

Dependency Explorer

The Dependency Explorer enables developers to analyse the static dependencies between components in a Symbian C++ application. The tool is useful for troubleshooting complex code relationships and, as such, is an aid to writing more efficient code.

Crash debugger

The new GUI crash debugger allows developers to connect to a crashed device with a running crash debugger. In Carbide.c++, details of the source code, variables, and registers for the thread that caused the crash can be viewed.

Support for R&D devices

Support is provided for on-device debugging and performance investigation on prototype and R&D devices.

This capability must be enabled by a device manufacturer.

Custom-SDK support

Support is provided for developers to use custom (nonpublic) SDKs (CustKits). In addition, the devices.xml file of the SDK properties can be edited directly from within Carbide.c++.

Where can I get more information on the features in Carbide.c++?

For information on the features of the other editions of Carbide.c++, please see the following pages: Carbide.c++ Developer Edition features and Carbide.c++ OEM Edition features. Alternatively, download and read the Carbide.c++ data sheet.

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