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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Arm - ravenscar - exceptions - last chance handler
Date: Sat, 30 May 2015 20:18:16 +0100
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jan.de.kruyf@gmail.com writes:

> And from experience: my Arm board just kick the bucket on an
> exception, afterward I learned to put a break point in the last chance
> handler. Then I could see the string in memory.

Hence the loop-forever (which is also the way that FreeRTOS handles
(some) unrecoverable errors); things stop working, C-c in gdb, poke
around.