Stateflow User's Guide

Debugging Data Range Violations

Stateflow detects the following data range violations during simulation:

• If a data object equals a value outside the range of the values set in the Initial, Minimum, and Maximum fields specified in the data properties dialog

• See Setting Data Properties in the Data Dialog for a description of the Initial, Minimum, and Maximum fields in the data properties dialog.

• If the fixed-point result of a fixed-point operation overflows its bit size

• See Overflow Detection for Fixed-Point Types for a description of the overflow condition in fixed-point numbers.

Detecting Data Range Violations

To detect data range violations during a simulation,

1. Build the target with debugging enabled.
2. Open the Debugger window.
3. In the Error checking options of the Debugger, select Data Range.
4. Start the simulation.

Data Range Violation Example

This Stateflow diagram has a data range violation.

The data a is defined to have an Initial and Minimal value of 0 and a Maximum value of 2. Each time an event awakens this Stateflow diagram and state A is active, a is incremented. The value of a quickly becomes a data range violation.

Debugging Conflicting Transitions

Debugging Cyclic Behavior

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