Oh my! An Interrupt…

Ahhrg! Again, my microcontroller stopped in an interrupt. And I have no clue why?

Using Processor Expert in MCU10 is a great thing as it takes care about the vector table. Usually the default settings for code generation are fine, but not in my case here. If you run into a spurious and unexpected interrupt, you stop in the Cpu_Interrupt() handler:
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A little or big Indian? A Plea for Peace…

I use a Intel processor to write this text, and this processor is is using Little Endian for the byte order. This is about Endian, not Indian :-).

Many processors I have programmed were Big Endians. With the addition of Freescale Kinetis (an ARM Cortex M4) and DSC in MCU10.2, I have a daily mixture with Big Endian (S08, ColdFire, …) and Little Endian (DSC and Kinetis).

The term “endian” is described nicely in the IEN 137 written 1980 by Danny Cohen:
“ON HOLY WARS AND A PLEA FOR PEACE“.
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No Source Available…

I just have run across a problem: I received a project for the S08QE128, and when I started a debug session with MCU10.2, the debugger was showing “no source available”. Ahhrg. Something must be wrong…

No Source Available

No Source Available?

Well, at least I can debug on assembly level. But this is not the point. I have the sources, but somehow the debugger does not find them?
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