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20 years ago

How to access the Program Counter of Nios II

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20 years ago

Nios II provides the NEXTPC instruction that returns the PC of that instruction plus four.

There doesn't appear to be a HAL macro available for using this

instruction from C code. However, it is relatively easy to make one yourself.

Just look at the examples in the HAL nios2.h file. It is located in your Nios II kit directory under components/altera_nios2/HAL/inc.