Using ITM Coresight for printf output, with the trace disabled

Hi,

I've set up the ITM coresight and redirected printf output to port 0, as per prof the IoT blog.

This is all working great.

The problem is when the trace is not enabled, it appears to wait when it hits a printf statement until the trace is enabled.

Not everyone is using the ITM to debug all the time. It is very processor hungry. It is very dependant on people not leaving debug print defines in their code.

Is there a way to get it to carry on if the trace is not enabled in the IDE?

Thanks,

Richard.