[hatari-devel] Handling signed values in the Debugger

[npomarede at corp.free.fr]

On Sun, 9 Aug 2009, Eero Tamminen wrote:

>
> Equality / inequality checks of course aren't a problem, I was referring to
> "larger than" and "smaller than" comparisons.
>
> While -2 is smaller than say $ff, $fffffffe certainly isn't:
> 	(a0) < $ff
>
> If you're debugging program logic that uses signed comparisons / values and
> you want to know exactly when some condition happens, that could make
> breakpointing pretty awkward.
>

Yes, you're right ; only speaking for my case, but I think the 
multiconditional breakpoints we have and the indirect addressing are quite 
powerfull and I never felt the need for < or > operator.

But perhaps once the release is made some people will have some other 
needs that could help improving the breakpoint syntax.


Nicolas