topic Setting Conditional Breakpoint on Program Counter in CodeWarrior for MCU https://community.nxp.com/t5/CodeWarrior-for-MCU/Setting-Conditional-Breakpoint-on-Program-Counter/m-p/275597#M10274 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>My embedded application (on MCF51JM128) is crashing for some unknown reason.&nbsp; When the debugger finally breaks, usually on an access violation or invalid instruction, the stack is so badly corrupted that it does not provide any useful debugging information.&nbsp; If possible, I'd like to set a conditional breakpoint on the Program Counter (PC), so that whenever it is set outside the valid range of addresses in which our application resides in Flash it will trigger a break.</P><P style="min-height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</P><P>I am using CodeWarrior 10.2, and so far I've found what looks like a mechanism for implementing a conditional break on the PC (see attached images).&nbsp; How should I configure the Set Trigger Properties dialog box to setup the breakpoint?&nbsp; Our application's valid range of addresses is between 0x00000420 and 0x00006628.&nbsp; Thanks!</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:38:30 GMT jimfell 2013-04-18T14:38:30Z Setting Conditional Breakpoint on Program Counter https://community.nxp.com/t5/CodeWarrior-for-MCU/Setting-Conditional-Breakpoint-on-Program-Counter/m-p/275597#M10274 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>My embedded application (on MCF51JM128) is crashing for some unknown reason.&nbsp; When the debugger finally breaks, usually on an access violation or invalid instruction, the stack is so badly corrupted that it does not provide any useful debugging information.&nbsp; If possible, I'd like to set a conditional breakpoint on the Program Counter (PC), so that whenever it is set outside the valid range of addresses in which our application resides in Flash it will trigger a break.</P><P style="min-height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</P><P>I am using CodeWarrior 10.2, and so far I've found what looks like a mechanism for implementing a conditional break on the PC (see attached images).&nbsp; How should I configure the Set Trigger Properties dialog box to setup the breakpoint?&nbsp; Our application's valid range of addresses is between 0x00000420 and 0x00006628.&nbsp; Thanks!</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:38:30 GMT https://community.nxp.com/t5/CodeWarrior-for-MCU/Setting-Conditional-Breakpoint-on-Program-Counter/m-p/275597#M10274 jimfell 2013-04-18T14:38:30Z