Debug in VSCode problem

[elektron314]

My setup:

Our own PCB with nRF5340

Debugger = nRF5340 DK

macOS 13.2.1 (22D68)

Project with T2: Star topology, application is the manifest repository. The only external files used by project is Toolchain aka zephyr-sdk-0.15.2.

I have such a problem. Debug in VSCode doesn't work as it is supposed to.

(!) If I don't tick Enable debug options in Edit Build Configuratioin then by pressing Debug Launch build I can debug but with stipulations. A part of my code is not accessible, probably it optiized, breakpoints are ignored and this code is never touched by the processor/compiler/system.

- How to workaround this? How not to optimize my code?

- + I have played with some config like DEBUG_OPTIMIZATION and NO_OPTIMIZATION, my code just can't be built.

- Why I even have a possibility to run Debug if  I didn't tick Enable debug options in Edit Build Configuratioin?

(!) If I tick Enable debug options in Edit Build Configuratioin then by pressing Debug Launch build my program just runs as it would be run after Flashing (w/o Debug). But I have that DEBUG CONSOLE OUTPUT with some information so the last lines are:

Thread 4 received signal SIGTRAP, Trace/breakpoint trap.

[Switching to Thread 3939856308]

There are even debug flow buttons. But they doesn' work, only Pause, Restart and Stop are available and Pause doesn't do nothing, Restart breaks everything so that even nRF5340 DK is not available anymore.

What's going on there?

[elektron314]

I set breakpoints like that:

But in debug it looks like this

I use nRF5340 DK as a debugger HW and VSC with nRF extension

[dejans]

Hi,

dejans said:

Could you please explain your use case regarding breakpoints? 

Could you provide more information about your project? Why do you need to set breakpoint to the place that is affected by debug optimizations?

dejans said:

dejans said:

Which debugger do you use?

Do you use nRF Debug? You could check this in the Settings of nRF Connect for VS Code extension.

Best regards,
Dejan

[elektron314]

I want to dive into the code as I'm learning programming now.

Check this, what this?

But the question is why during Debug with the tick on Enable debug options leads to no debug at all?

[dejans]

Hi,

elektron314 said:

Check this, what this?

I referred to the debugger that you use, and which is currently selected in your nRF Connect for VS Code extension settings.

elektron314 said:

But the question is why during Debug with the tick on Enable debug options leads to no debug at all?

This is what we try to find out. Are you able to use Debug option with any of our provided samples? 

Best regards,
Dejan

[elektron314]

Yes, It works perfectly. I have uploaded Blinky with Debug option enabled and then I could easily debug step by step.