🛑 Breakpoint with condition in STM32CubeIDE

What are breakpoint are use for?

Breakpoints are used to stop program execution at a selected line, which helps to debug a particular piece of code:

In some cases you need to stop the program, when variable reaches specific value:

• Counter value
• ADC value
• Time Value
• State value

This can help trace all program stages and find out where code is wrong.

How to set ordinary breakpoint in STM32CubeIDE?

Just do double left-click right to the line's number of press Ctrl + Shift + B, the small blue dot should appear:

Note, that in some cases breakpoints will not works, to fix this turn off any optimization. Go to: Project -> Properties -> C/C++ Build -> Settings -> MCU GCC Compiler -> Optimization -> Optimization level: None (-O0)

All breakpoints you can find in the (Ctrl+ 3 -> Breakpoint (Debug)) window:

That's all, now when program reaches this breakpoint executing stops:

And you can check your variables (both global and local) to find out bug:

How to set condition-breakpoint in STM32CubeIDE?

Just do Ctrl + double left-click right to the line's number to open Properties for C/C++ Line Breakpoint and write in Condition field C-style condition with using your variable:

It will work, but, unfortunately, very bad:

This breakpoint type slows down code execution in approximately 100 times:

Another good way to set condition-breakpoint

You can just write a few string of code with condition, that you need and add ordinary breakpoint:

This works much more better, that condition-breakpoint, and don't much slow-down your program: