Debugging - Particle Boron

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Hi Team,

This might be a simple question. I was trying to debug the code using the Particle Debugger. Been following this Particle Debug. The only problem being it always opens in Disassembly mode and stays there always.

I was wondering if it was possible to do the debug on the code rather than in the disassembly mode. I believe it has to do with some settings which I couldn’t locate.

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Regards,
Joseph

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Hi Joseph- Yes, the debug should work on the code as well. Does it not progress past Disassembly mode?

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The location that’s being disassembled (0x00000a82) doesn’t have source because it’s part of the nRF52840 SoftDevice that implements things like the BLE radio. That’s loaded as a binary, even in debug builds, and there’s no source so it will always display in the disassembly.

The two reasons for this are typically:

  • You need to turn off BLE, because BLE and the debugger don’t work well together and the device will likely crash when debugging if you’re using BLE.
  • You’ve overwritten the stack so when the last call returned from subroutine, it jumped to an invalid address that happens be around 0x00000a82.
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