Thinking ahead on debugging....

[donaldquixote]

Hi all,

I'm beginning work on my second DS project. This time through, I am hoping to avoid some of the debug headaches I ran into the first time, so I've been looking into methods for gathering data on crashes/hangs.

Anyway, I have two questions:
First, I'm using the default exception handler, and am successfully getting a guru meditation screen on crash. However, it always gives 0x0 as the address, which I know isn't valid. Is there a known cause for this?

Second, are there any other nifty techniques for getting more information on crash? I don't have the full version of nocash, and it seems like I never will. Also, I can print error codes with my asserts to debug console, but you can only use so many asserts. : )

Any help is greatly appreciated!

[vuurrobin]

using asserts like hell is probably a good idea. other than that, you could try this out:

http://forums.devkitpro.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1465

you could try to search for emulators that support more debugging stuff than the freeware version of no$gba.

[donaldquixote]

Thanks for the tip : )

[WinterMute]

Which address is always 0x0? If it's the access address then that's why you get the exception ...