Debugging a bootloader code

I am currently working on a bootloader for a dsPIC33FJ.

If you develop a bootloader, you might want to test it during its development. What better is there to see if a code is running, then a blinky? The blinky in the previous post is also the testing blinky for the bootloader.




So I download the blinky via the bootloader feature, and I want to check, if it got saved to the program flash. But turns out, you can't do that with MplabX, what a bummer!

I tried using the Program Memory View:

Eventually it should be the thing that I need.

But during writing the program memory, nothing really changes in the Program Memory View.

My bootloader code even worked, the blinky got downloaded over UART, and the LED blinked. So I tried the Program Memory View again, I let the bootloader download the code, and stopped it during the blinky part. Here is a video how it looked:

As you see the program is there, as it does not do madness. There is a dead simple delay with NOPs. Only you can't really see anything useful, besides the Program Counter.

I did a Bootloader project just in the near past with Atollic Truestudio and a Cortex M3, neither less to say, I could see the blinky appear there in the program code during execution, and I could step through it normally while it ran.