Vscode-cpptools: Debugger: show integer types in multiple ways: hex, dec, ascii, binary

[jpap]

It looks like variables in the debugger are based on their type -- but when using uint8_t they show up as char, when what I really want to see is the decimal value.

It would be nice to show all alternate forms of a variable -- hex, dec, ascii, binary -- or have a way to switch between types in the UI.

The only (tedious) way to do this now is to use the debug console and typecast to (int) for example.

[pieandcakes]

@jpap This is the same as #319 . You can specify common variables in the Watch window. You can find format specifiers and you can find the format specifiers here.

For example for double dbl I added dbl,h to the Watch window and it displayed the value of dbl in hex.

[rpavlik]

FWIW, this does not appear to work with memory addresses in hex (such as debugging on an MCU) - no permutation of h or x, a delimiter like , or /, and the address, would display any value.