[hatari-devel] Exception debugging & breakpoints

[Laurent Sallafranque]

 > It would be sthg like "use uae's core for ST + full debugger and use 
Winuae's core for falcon only and no debugger"

I don't understand : I use very often the debugger with the new uae core 
and it works for me... ???

Laurent



Le 10/06/2011 22:23, Nicolas Pomarède a écrit :
> Le 10/06/2011 22:09, Eero Tamminen a écrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>> On perjantai 10 kesäkuu 2011, Eero Tamminen wrote:
>>> Hm.  Maybe best is to call debugger in Exception() just to pass
>>> the above exception information to the debugger, but let the actual
>>> debugger invokation happen at the normal place.
>>
>> I looked into WinUAE code too, and it seems still to be missing all
>> Exception debugging support (like discussed in earlier "68030 Debug
>> mode and new CPU" thread).  On double bus error, it e.g. uae_reset()
>> instead of notifying user first and rebooting after "OK" like old
>> UAE core does.
>>
>> ->  I think doc/todo.txt should have a section on features
>>     missing from WinAUE core.
>>
>> Is WinUAE core missing anything specific besides:
>> * Exception debugging support
>> * Fixing&  documenting cmdline options for selecting prefetch etc
>>    (and adding them to GUI)
>> * Enabling/fixing MMU support
>> That should be added to todo.txt?
>> ?
>
> Don't know, really didn't have time to look at winuae recently ; we 
> might add a note about this, but I don't think explaining it in larger 
> detail in the doc is necessary for now.
> It would be sthg like "use uae's core for ST + full debugger and use 
> Winuae's core for falcon only and no debugger"
>
>>
>> Btw. Nicolas, what's your current schedule for Hatari v1.5 release?
>>
>> I.e. would it be OK if I add history&  old-UAE Exception support to
>> debugger before it (will need also doc update before release)?
>
> Very soon I hope, maybe around june 17th. So I think we should not add 
> new features now but fixes any current issue we can find.
> Especially touching to cpu's core is always risky, so I would prefer 
> we postpone those features after 1.5 is released.
>
> Nicolas
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