Re: [hatari-devel] Debugger commands address argument inconsistencies

[Nicolas Pomarède <npomarede@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 24/10/2021 à 01:31, Eero Tamminen a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> What address related arguments are accepted
> by different debugger commands is not very
> consistent:
> --------------------------------------------
>  > h d
> 'disasm' or 'd' - disassemble from PC, or given address
> Usage:  d [<start address>[-<end address>]]
>
>  > h dd
> 'dspdisasm' or 'dd' - disassemble DSP code
> Usage:  dd [<start address>[-<end address>]]
>
>  > h m
> 'memdump' or 'm' - dump memory
> Usage:  m [b|w|l] [<start address>[-<end address>| <count>]]
>
>  > h dm
> 'dspmemdump' or 'dm' - dump DSP memory
> Usage:  dm [<x|y|p> <start address>[-<end address>]]
>
>  > h savebin
> 'savebin' - save memory to a file
> Usage:  savebin <filename> <address> <length>
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> I wonder whether all of these commands should
> support both ways to specify address range:
> * <start>-<end>
> * <start> <count>
>
> Like CPU memdump does?

Hi

I usually adapt to the description of the command to use count or end, 
but I agree both syntaxes could be available for consistency and could 
have theur usefulness depending on the use case.

Nicolas