[hatari-devel] Debugger address base

[Eero Tamminen]

Hi,

On Thursday 30 July 2009, npomarede at corp.free.fr wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Eero Tamminen wrote:
> > On my part AFAIK no, unless you come up with some other issues with
> > the new debugger stuff. :-)
>
> I used it lately, and I think it's strange now that addresses used after
> 'd' or 'm' commands are decimal. Is it possible to make hexa the default
> for addresses use with 'd', 'm' and other commands involving an address,

So that would be "a", "d", "l", "m", "s", "w", "da", "dd", "dm" commands
i.e. switching about all commands back to hex?


> but to keep decimal as the default type for "content" value ?

Hm.  I find it more natural & faster to enter data as hex...  There can be
much more content to enter and if debugger accepts all bases for "content",
one would then need to add '$' for all values.  But I guess one could use
"l"(oad)  if there's more data...


Anyway, I think it might be better to have an option for forcing all numbers
lacking prefix to be interpreted in certain number base.  The new "value"
command could for example accept special "dec", "hex" and "bin" argument for
switching this.  The debugger prompt could show this mode.

In the config file this option could be named e.g. NumberInputBase.  But
what should be the prefix used for decimal numbers when non-the prefixed
input is being interpreted as hex or binary?


> So to write $1234 at adress $20000, you would use :
> w 20000 $12 $34
>
> And to set D0 to $1234 :
> r D0=$1234
>
> What do others think ?


	- Eero