I'm debugging and want to inspect
CONFIG1H (CONFIGURATION REGISTER 1 HIGH)
of a PIC18F. CONFIG1H does seem to be recongized as an SFR when I enter it into the Watch window.
After stopping at a breakpoint, you can open the configuration bits window:
Window >> PIC Memory Views >> Configuration bits
but it's unclear whether those are cached in MPLABX or newly read from the MCU.
Best Answer
To avoid this ambiguity, you should embed the CONFIG register settings in your source code. Then, when you compile your code, it embeds the settings into your hex file.
As you stated, you can view the Configuration Bits. This is not to set them, however, as much as to assist you in formatting them for your code. Once you select what you want, click where it says "Generate Source Code":
It will give you formatted #pragma statements that you can copy directly into your source files:
Put these statements in the source code, outside of any function. I put mine at the top of my main.c file.
Good luck!