CCS/MSP430G2553: Disable software breakpoint support

PF9244

Part Number: MSP430G2553

Tool/software: Code Composer Studio

CCS's reluctance to restore the GIE bit in the status register is slowing down my debugging. To avoid this problem I want to set two hardware breakpoints, and to be able to do that,.I have disabled Auto Run Options/Run to symbol options to free up a second hardware breakpointl. When I then attempt to set a second hardware breakpoint, CCS reports

Try as I might, I cannot find how to disable software breakpoint support. How does one do that?

over 5 years ago

0 Ki over 5 years ago

TI__Guru**** 481001 points

Hello,

Please see:

https://e2e.ti.com/support/archive/internal/int-msp430/f/167/p/405485/1437804#1437804

Thanks

0 Chester Gillon over 5 years ago in reply to Ki

Guru 92251 points

Ki said:

Please see:

https://e2e.ti.com/support/archive/internal/int-msp430/f/167/p/405485/1437804#1437804

Ki, that seems to be a private forum which is not visible to non TI employees.

0 Ki over 5 years ago in reply to Chester Gillon

TI__Guru**** 481001 points

Ah yes it is an internal (and now defunct) forum. Thank you for pointing that out. The relevant part of that post I was referring to is below:

I saw the same thing you are reporting, after the first hardware breakpoint is added, it starts adding software breakpoints. I went into the project settings and disabled software breakpoints (Project -> Properties -> Debug -> Misc/Other Options: uncheck "Allow software breakpoints to be used"). Then I cleaned the project and rebuilt/downloaded it to the device, and I was able to successfully add and use a second hardware breakpoint.