Breakpoint programmatically

You did not say what the "another tool" is.  I hesitate to say that it is not possible to get what you want. I suggest that you do the following simple experiment and draw your own conclusions.

(1) Write a simple program (or use one of your existing programs), delete all the break-points in the source code. Compile & Link to generate a file.txt.

(2) Go back to the same source code and set a few break-points. Compile & Link to generate another file.txt.

You can now compare the two file.txt (one without break-point, one with). You will see that they are identical to each other.

yes you are right, i tried this befor and the files are identical.that why i am trying something else.

the other tool is LabVIEW.

but i think its possible, someone did it in Code Composer, i can ask him on monday. and i think it should be also possible in IAR workbench.

i will report.

thanks.

hello,

yes i asked others, and it seems to be impossible ;(

but i can use the function msp430_breakpoint from the msp430.dll and the msp430_run to run to breakpoint, it works .

thanks

Hello,

I didn't understand u r problem exactly but long back i tried mor or les the same.

U have to prepare the macro file for putting the break points programatically.

C-Spy has it's own marcos which can be used to wrtining the script.

For example to set break point at a pariticular code line we can use "__setCodeBreak" like

__setCodeBreak(<functionName>, <count>, <condition>, "TRUE", "");

u can get the complete macros in the "EWSTM8_UserGuide" datasheet.

this macro file has be included in "project->debugger->setupmacro" options.

hello,

i think u understood my problem exactly ;)

i have tired this before. i created this text-file :

execUserSetup()

{

            __setCodeBreak("functionname", 0, "1", "TRUE", "");

}

i saved it as xxxx.mac, and included the file in project->debugger->setupmacro" options...

but nothing happened, no breakpoints has been set.

did i make a mistake creating the mac-file ???

yaa, it seems you misssed a small point.

for the function "__setCodeBreak" u need to provide complete path and line numbers.

example:

void main(void)
{
 
  WATCHDOG_CONTROL = WDT_PASSWORD + WDT_HOLD;

  initClocks () ;

  userMain ();

}

for putting a break point at initclock the code will be

execUserSetup()
{
            __setCodeBreak("{D:\\bonangrx\\TEMP_FED\\CommonSource\\startMain.c}.55.9", 0, "1", "TRUE", "");
}

where "D:\\bonangrx\\TEMP_FED\\CommonSource\\startMain.c" is the file name and 55 is the Row and  9 is the coloumn number.

Every backslash should follow one more backslash("\").

Hello Rajesh,

actually it worked, but the Linker Outputfile still doesn't contain infos about the breakpoints, it still looks like one from the Programm without breakpoints.

but i managed to do it in LabVIEW in reading the Map-File and search for the Adress of the function where i want to put my Breakpoint.

Thanks for all the replies.