MPLAB 8.1 Phantom Breakpoint Bug

[3v0]

Has anyone else run into the 8.1 phantom breakpoint problem? There has been some talk about it over in the Microchip forums.

It seems to be due to an interaction between MPLAB using PICkit2 and MPSIM. I think if you enter MPLAB/MPSIM from MPLAB/PICkit2 with breakpoints set, then clear the breakpoint(s) in MPSIM, when you return to PICkit2 the cleared breakpoints are there but do not show up and are not easily cleared.

So far the only dependable way I found to get rid of the phantom breakpoints is to remove the MPLAB workspace file.

 

[blueroomelectronics]

I've seen it too, not often but I've seen it. This sort of thing usually gets fixed by the next release of MPLAB.

 

[BronzeG3]

I have the same issue using the official ICD2. For me, setting the debugger to none, and then setting it back to ICD2 usually fixes the breakpoint.