Re: [hatari-devel] AES/VDI breakpoints (was: Add some NVDI function names)

[Eero Tamminen <oak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On 10/12/20 3:38 AM, Thorsten Otto wrote:
> On Sonntag, 11. Oktober 2020 22:54:18 CEST Eero Tamminen wrote:
> > if VDI_Info() doesn't provide all the
> > information you need, could you provide a patch
> > adding them?
>
> VDI_Info() currently relies on printing values that were saved at the last VDI
> call. What i was thinking about was to print also the *contents* of the intin
> and ptsin arrays. But that cannot reliabe be done much later (look at the
> bindings in gemlib for example, most of the time the values are on the stack,
> and are not available anymore when the function doing the call is left).

Right, so the data needs to be copied, not the pointers to them.


> So i don't think that it currently makes sense to change it, if that all is
> going to be redesigned. It's also not that real urgent, i would probably wait
> for this until after the release.


	- Eero