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8 years ago

FreeRTOS on Nios II runs, but get a soft_exception after breakpoint

I am trying to implement a simple FreeRTOS V9.0 demo on my existing NiosII system. I am using FreeRTOS demo for Nios II pretty much as is. The only changes I had to do were: Change my BSP type t...
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8 years ago

After some deep diving into FreeRTOS port_asm.S file and comparing it against the standard exception handling code in HAL, I figured out the problem. The issue is that the FreeRTOS port requires that HAL must have hal.enable_runtime_stack_checking set to false. Having changed just that one setting, I am now able to properly continue executing after hitting a breakpoint.