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Altera_Forum
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21 years ago

IDE Debugger

I started to use the IDE debug environment on Tuesday. So far it looks cool, however I had some problems last night. When I did multiple single steps, the PC was executing lines of C code at random...
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21 years ago

As a hard- and software engineer, I do not trust compilers at all ;-) I have seen strange behavior with optimized code with different debuggers, I suppose that is in the nature of the optimization (how can you step e.g. through a for-loop that was simply optimized away?). And I have spent hours of searching errors that turned out to be compiler-bugs...

Thomas