Re: [hatari-devel] [PATCH] Add some NVDI function names

[Thorsten Otto <admin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mittwoch, 30. September 2020 19:13:22 CEST Eero Tamminen wrote:

 

Hmpf. Ma email client fooled me, my last post wa snot yet finished ;)

 

> but one

> can already do that (with opcodes) using tracing

> breakpoints.

 

Unfortunately, for VDI- (and also AES-) calls that does not work very well in most cases. In most libraries, there are single vdi() and aes() entry points.

 

>Each of the nearly thousand TRACE()

>macro calls in the code would eventually need to

>check whether its on deny/allow opcode list:

 

Erm. I don't get that.....

 

>it may might catch some subtle bug in app.

 

Unfortunately that seems be the case for a lot of older applications (including GEMINI, for example).