Hi,

For those who are interested I got this answer from Microchip Engineering
Support to my support ticket:

Problem Resolution:

Hi Philippe,

Your analysis of what is going on is pretty accurate.  The bit is there, its
not documented, but our tools automatically take advantage of it as needed.  

At some point in time we realized we could take care of this completely for
customers using our tools and stopped documenting it.  Now the IDE just sets
or clears the bit based on if you are in release or debug mode.  The reason
that decision was made is because it became a support liability to allow
customers to have control over that bit.  We had numerous issues where
customers either did not understand the bit and it generated support
questions, or worse yet customers could send a hex file with the debugger
enabled to a contract manufacture and would have 1000's of production units
built with the debugger bit on by accident.

But this does present a new problem for customers not using Microchip's IDE
software.

So we don't have a #pragma config for backbug, and the device header file
does not contain __config() directives any longer, and there is no
documentation in the datasheet.

What you can probably do for now is try using __config(0xXXXX) and set the
config bits using a binary value.  This is nearly unreadable without
excellent documentation in your code, but I cannot think of another way to
do it.  I will make a case to the tools group and silicon group that we
should still document this bit.

You could also make a case to your IDE vendor that it would be better if
they automatically control the debug bit based on if your are debugging or
programming.  Nothing stops them from implementing something like Microchip
does now.


:-D Olin you should be pleased: I NEED to hard code __CONFIG and not use
these stupid mnemonics (for now)...

 


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Best regards,

Philippe.

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