Re: [hatari-devel] debugger suggestions

[Eero Tamminen <oak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On 26.4.2022 1.24, Eero Tamminen wrote:
> On 25.4.2022 18.02, J.Young wrote:
> > 2) break on *any* loaded symbol not just a specific one.
>
> First of the attached patches does that.  Please test.

Feature is small and isolated enough that I've pushed it.


> > Also general debugger requests:
> >
> > 1) when disassembling at an address, sometimes I want to peek at the 
> > code above.
> >
> > could an option like 'd -<number of byte/instructions>' or just 'd -' 
> > for a page above be added to allow moving back a bit in the disassembly?
>
> You can already do that with:
>      d "pc-<bytes>"
>
> The problem is that disassembly started at random offset can produce 
> garbage.  There's no way to backtrack / sync instruction address either, 
> as long as one does not know what those instructions are.
>
> If you enable debugger history, you get that information, if those 
> instructions were executed before debugger was entered.
>
>
> Second patch adds debugger support for taking default disassembly 
> address (when re-entering debugger) from execution history when history 
> is enabled.
>
> Please test and comment on that too.

Can you patch & build Hatari with that i.e. test it?


	- Eero