[hatari-devel] start and break question

[Laurent Sallafranque]

Hi,

This works well for me (I've tested with 2 progs).
That's a nice option.
Will you upload it ?

Regards

Laurent



Le 06/06/2011 00:11, Eero Tamminen a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> On maanantai 06 kesäkuu 2011, Nicolas Pomarède wrote:
>>> I think catching the first program instruction would need a new virtual
>>> debugger variable that tracks the OS program basepage and the text
>>> segment address in that.  It would be then possible to set a
>>> breakpoint on it and its changes.
>>>
>>> How does that sound and how should I name that variable?
>> What code would you use to get the basepage on any TOS version ?
> Info command should already have all the necessary checks for getting
> sysbase/basepage on different TOS version.  With the attached patch,
> you can use just:
> 	b BasepageTextSegment>  0&&  pc = BasepageTextSegment
>
> To break on normal program startup.
>
> Currently the variable shows a value althought there's no program running,
> so I was wondering should it return zero until the text segment _size_ is
> also non-zero?
>
>
> On maanantai 06 kesäkuu 2011, Laurent Sallafranque wrote:
>> You may call it something like debug_startAndBreakProgram or
>> debug_basepagePrg, ...
>>
>> (debug to know it's a debugging variable)
> I think the "debug" prefix is redundant.  All breakpoint variables in
> the debugger are "debugging" variables. :-)
>
>
>
>> PS : this variable could also be used in a graphical debugger : we could
>> launch a program, and if the check button "break on start" is activated,
>> the debugger would break on the first instruction.
>> This would be nice, no ?
> Definitely. :-)
>
>
> 	- Eero
>
>
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