Re: [hatari-devel] Extensions to Hatari's Native Features support for debugging?

[Eero Tamminen <oak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

For now, I commited support for NF_DEBUGGER.

I've also commited support for doing GEMDOS / VDI / AES
tracing without needing to enable GEMDOS emulation or
extended VDI mode.

(I needed this to debug EmuTOS because it doesn't respect
boot drive variable.  If there's C: available, it will
boot from that.)


	- Eero

On lauantai 12 lokakuu 2013, Nicolas Pomarède wrote:
> On 10/10/2013 22:54, Eero Tamminen wrote:
> > Douglas asked how one could direct native code asserts to
> > invoke Hatari debugger:
> > http://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=16682&p=239236#p239233
> > 
> > While one might try something hacky like this with --bios-intercept:
> > 	XBios(255, "b pc=pc")
> > 
> > I think best would be to add direct support this this kind of
> > operations to Hatari's Native Features support, as that is easily
> > extendable
> > 
> > (unlike XBios(255)):
> > 	http://wiki.aranym.org/natfeats/proposal
> > 
> > For starters I was thinking of two additional NatFeats operations:
> > 	"NF_DEBUGGER" -- invoke Hatari debugger
> > 	"NF_COMMAND" -- same as Xbios(255)   [1]
> > 
> > Attached untested patch implements them to Hatari.
> > 
> > Comments, standalone test-code for NatFeats and suggestions for
> > other useful NatFeats commands would be welcome!
> > 
> > (especially the test-code, hint, hint...)
>
> I don't use natfeats myself, but the patch/extension looks OK to me.