Re: [hatari-devel] Re: Hatari debugging improvements / NatFeats Extension Patch

[Eero Tamminen <oak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On torstai 01 toukokuu 2014, Nicolas Pomarède wrote:
> Le 01/05/2014 11:44, Eero Tamminen a écrit :
> > I was thinking of some other potential debugging enhancements:
> > 
> > * Showing exception debugging indication in statusbar
> >    (maybe one letter per exception type)
> 
> I'm not sure about this one ; many games are using protections that
> trigger lots of exceptions to fool potential crackers, I'm afraid this
> would just make the status bar not very readable in that case.

I didn't mean showing exceptions that are happening, but showing
which exceptions are configured to be caught by the debugger.
And only when exception debugging is enabled.

It can be a bit annoying to debug something and only after
the fact notice that you e.g. didn't have exception debugging
enabled at all.  With this, one would see it from the statusbar.

	- Eero

> Although exceptions can be interesting to see when debugging your own
> crashing program, there're a lot of exceptions going on in "normal"
> cases that you certainly don't want to see, nor to be notified in the
> status bar.
> 
> Also, the status bar is already rather full, and I was thinking about
> adding some informations about current disk operations (track, sector,
> head, ...) which would require between 10 and 15 chars.
> 
> 
> Regarding the other points of your lists, I don't have any opinion, I'm
> not a regular user of debugger / natfeats.
> 
> Nicolas