Re: [hatari-devel] Debugger question

[David Savinkoff <dsavnkff@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Oct 23, 2021 at 4:34 PM Eero Tamminen wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 23.10.2021 22.25, Roger Burrows wrote:
> > On 23 Oct 2021 at 18:45, Thorsten Otto wrote:
> >> On Samstag, 23. Oktober 2021 18:12:14 CEST Roger Burrows wrote:
> >>> I'm trying to debug an EmuTOS issue (as usual).  I want to dump a big
> >> range
> >>> of memory to a file for subsequent examination.
> > ...
> >>
> >> Im not sure what command you are using there, but can't you just use the
> >> savebin command to write the memory to a file, then examine that with a hex
> >> editor?
> >>
> > Thanks, Thorsten (and also Eero who posted at the same time).
> >
> > I just didn't notice that command for some reason.  Perhaps I was looking for a
> > command with 'mem' in the name ...  'savebin' is what I want!
>
> It's probably too late to change the names of
> the commands, but maybe their descriptions
> could be improved:
>        memdump ( m) : dump memory
>       memwrite ( w) : write bytes/words/longs to memory
>        loadbin ( l) : load a file into memory
>        savebin (  ) : save memory to a file
> ?
>
> (I already commited a small improvement to
> several commands' detailed descriptions.)
>
> "logfile" command is easy to overlook as its
> in the general section.  This is because logging
> applies both to CPU & DSP (disassembly etc), but
> I changed at least its short desc to be more
> explicit of what it does:
>        logfile ( f) : set (memdump/disasm/etc) log file
>
>         - Eero

Names can be added as alternative names without deleting the original name.
David