platformio-vscode-ide: Debugger breakpoints are not activated on new debug session start

Configuration

Operating system: Windows 10 x64 v1607 LTSB Russian

PlatformIO Version (platformio --version): 3.6.4

Description of problem

The breakpoints I set before I start debug session are not automatically activated when I start a new debug session.

Steps to Reproduce

Open some “hello world” example.
Set a breakpoint somewhere so that it will be hit during program execution.
Debug the project.
After the execution stops at the beginning of the main function, press “Continue” (F5).

Actual Results

The breakpoint is not hit.

Expected Results

The breakpoint should be hit.

Additional info

Workaround: set the breakpoints after you start the debug session and the execution stops at the beginning of the main function.

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 5 years ago
Reactions: 1
Comments: 23 (9 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

Also affected here using stlink on ststm32 platform. Adding debug_init_break = (empty) to the platformio.ini doesn’t help and actually makes the problem worse.

jpmeijers on Apr 24, 2023

YES!

That works. It now preserves and observes breakpoints between Debug sessions and also when I shutdown and restart VSCode. It no longer stops at init() when starting a session; instead it stops in the reset handler function. That is not a problem for me.

Thank you, Ivan! Will you be incorporating this into a future release?

S2Doc on Sep 4, 2019