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[Solved] Keil-MDK Error: “Error: Encountered an improper argument”

Keil MDK solves the problem of “error: encoded an improved argument”


Arm official problem description and solutions: https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ka004382/latest


Cause of problem: μ The vision5 debugger is currently unable to process dwarf debugging information that contains folders or file names with UTF-8 characters. In other words, your project directory should be in Chinese, instead of using the directory with Chinese.

Solution: change all the paths to English, then clean up the project and recompile.