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<concept id="GUID-26714A57-B6B4-5E81-B512-FB520718482B" xml:lang="en"><title>Debug Monitor
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Tool</title><shortdesc>Describes how to get basic information about the system state when
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problems occur on hardware to help you debug your software.</shortdesc><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>
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<p>Device drivers are typically run and debugged on target hardware rather
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than on the Emulator. The tool that provides this information is called the <i>debug
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monitor</i> or the <i>crash debugger</i>. </p>
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<p>The debug monitor is used when the Kernel faults. This can happen because
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there is a fault in a kernel-side component, such as a device driver, or because
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a thread or process marked as system-critical crashes. </p>
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<p>Note that the debug monitor is one of the basic ways of debugging software
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problems on target hardware. Full interactive debugging on reference hardware
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and some real phones is available through commercial IDEs. </p>
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</conbody><related-links>
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<linktext>H4 in the Debug   Monitor (or Why is the board flashing?)</linktext>
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