An error information appeared when debugging the native C example of platformio

PlatformIO IDE
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Platformio can be used as an IDE of native C programming. In the “Porject Examples”:

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a Native example named “hello-world” can be imported:
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But there is an annoying little problem when debugging:

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Is there anyway to solve this information?
Best regards.

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This message is also often triggered when mouse-hovering over an expression that is not a variable, it doesn’t have any effect and can be closed.

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Thank you.
There is another problem:
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when stepping over printf(), no message printed in the “TERMINAL” below. I think “Hello World from PlatformIO!” should be printed when stepping over.
Is there anyway to solve this problem?
Best regards.

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What’s in the “Debug Console”?

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It is:
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Okay, and when you step over the printf()?

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I’m sorry, I can not understand “when”…
I click the step over button when the yellow arrow located at line 5, after click step over button, the yellow arrow moves to line 6, as the following picture shows:

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Is there new output at the bottom of the “Debug Console” tab?

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There is no output at the bottom of the “Debug Console” tab:

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I checked every tabs, no “Hello World from PlatformIO!” appeared:
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I find the message appeared in the “Debug Console” tab when click the “continue” button:
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But it is not what I expected, because it does not meet the expectations of steps debugging.

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Yeah the message probably does not appear directly because of buffering / flushing. A fflush(stdout); after the printf() may help so that the message directly appears when the fflush(); line is stepped over.

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Great, after add fflush(stdout); , the message directly appears.
By the way, if I do not want to add fflush(stdout); , is there anyway to configure in somewhere, such as in platformio.ini, or c_cpp_properties.json located at .vscode folder, etc, to let the message directly appears?
Best regards.

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As one of the first commands in your main() program you can just disable buffering for the stdout stream.

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then you don’t need fflush() anymore and the output should appear directly after the printf().

You can additionally wrap this in

#ifdef __PLATFORMIO_BUILD_DEBUG__
//disable buffering
#endif

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if you only want this behavior when debugging and not during a normal build + run.

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Thank you.
There is another problem when using scanf():

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
    #ifdef __PLATFORMIO_BUILD_DEBUG__
    setbuf(stdout, NULL);
    #endif

    printf("Hello World from PlatformIO!\n");

    int i;
    printf("i = ");
    scanf(" %d", &i);
    printf("%d\n", i);

    return 0;
}

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I feel it’s hard to describe the phenomenon in my poor English, then I upload the .gif to this:

It can be downloaded.
Best regards.