When I initially promised "more depth" on mspdebug, I honestly believed it would be more user friendly. But frankly, the more I played with it, the less I wanted to use it as a debugger. Fortunately, it can function as a bridge to GDB which is a much more pleasant debugger to work with. Getting mspdebug to play well with GDB was not straightforward, but I'm pleased to say I have a solution that works.