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Altera_Forum
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21 years ago

How to break in NIOS?

If I let the debugger run, and then I want to break the program, whereever it is, how do I do that? I would expect to have a 'pause' or 'break now' button, but I cannot seem to find ...
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21 years ago

The debugger does in fact have a "pause" (break) icon as well as "play" (run) and "stop" (stop debugging). Look for it in a tool-bar just below the various menus (file, edit, etc.). You need to be in the "debug perspective" of the IDE (which should automaticaly happen for you if you have started the debugger).

If you right-click on the left-hand margin of your source-code (where the line numbers show up, if you have those enabled) you can enable/disable a breakpoint at a specific line of code.